Date: 05 Nov 2002 15:49:10 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit Message-ID: <44smyfhhdl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <001101c28430$4372aa40$08695f0a@frigate> References: <001101c28430$4372aa40$08695f0a@frigate>
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"Joseph Gleason" <clash@tasam.com> writes: > IIRC There was a 1TB limit on the size of any filesystem (or actually of any > block device) in FreeBSD based the kernel internaly using a 512 byte block > size and having a max of 2^31 blocks. (512*2^31 = 2^40 = 1TB) > > Do I remember correctly? Close, but not quite. The kernel doesn't deal with blocks internally, and the block size used by the filesystem is 16k by default. > Is this still the case? > A client wants to build a system with over 1TB on a single filesystem and I > need to see if FreeBSD can support it. These have existed for quite some time, but you can't do it out of the box. I don't have my hands on how to do it, but you should be able to track it down. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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