From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 12:49:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F66E37B41D for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:49:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFF4143E88 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:49:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA5KnAWJ025074 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:49:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA5KnAao025071; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:49:10 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit References: <001101c28430$4372aa40$08695f0a@frigate> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 05 Nov 2002 15:49:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <001101c28430$4372aa40$08695f0a@frigate> Message-ID: <44smyfhhdl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Joseph Gleason" 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