Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 16:03:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Phillips <chris@selkie.org> To: Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file size Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104141600150.64858-100000@shell.bchosting.com> In-Reply-To: <p05001900b6fe7eeb480c@[192.168.1.2]>
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This question was already asked and answered earlier today. Here is a quote from Andrew Hesford: > Okay, after posting my last response, I found this interesting tidbit of > information from http://www3.au.freebsd.org/FAQ/install.html: > > The maximum theoretical filesystem size limitation is 2 gigablocks. > Thus, with the default block size of 8K, this is 16TB. With a 4K block > size (this is the smallest possible, I think) this works out to 8TB. In > practice, there is a soft limit (I'm not sure what this means) of 1TB, > although modifications can yield 4TB filesystems, which do exist. > > The maximum file size on an FFS filesystem is approximately 1 > gigablocks, or half the maximum filesystem size. With the smallest > possible block size (4K), this means you have 4TB files, and with a > default 8K block size, you can get 8TB files. -Chris Phillips On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Rick Knebel wrote: > Is there any limit to the size of an individual file on freebsd. > I know on Linux it is 2 Gigs. > > Thanks > Rick > -- > Rick Knebel > rknebel@uplink.net > http://members.tripod.com/~Rick_Knebel/ > http://rknebel.uplink.net/~rknebel > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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