Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 14:40:54 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it> Cc: Jesse Geddis <freebsd@sgeine.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystem size Message-ID: <20030301204054.GF72112@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030301121311.GA306@goku.kasby> References: <20030301092649.GA525@goku.kasby> <PIEDIEIAPIPEKPNPJKAHAELKCCAA.freebsd@sgeine.net> <20030301121311.GA306@goku.kasby>
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In the last episode (Mar 01), Francesco Casadei said: > On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 02:07:05AM -0800, Jesse Geddis wrote: > > Thank you, It didn't mention what if any (and i don't believe there > > is one) size limitation there is on an nvs mounted volume. Do you > > know of one? Specifically, we have a 9tb NetApp we want to make > > sure we aren't going to have to make a bunch of little filesystems > > on. > > I'm not an NFS expert, but according to RFC1813 NFSv3 supports 64 > bits file sizes and offsets. This says nothing about filesystem size > though. I'm sorry I don't know the right answer to your question, but > I suggest you to look at http://www.rfc.net/ and search for NFS. > Searching on http://groups.google.com/ may also be useful (I've found > a lot of threads about this topic). An NFS client does not care how big the server's volume is; it only cares about individual files. You should have no trouble accessing the NetApp's storage from a FreeBSD client. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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