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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.

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