Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:30:40 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Strick <strick@covad.net> To: jdusek@cs.uiowa.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Largest Hard Drive Message-ID: <200403302330.i2UNUebA001024@mist.nodomain>
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>> > What is the largest hard drive that FreeBSD can suppport? > Is there a limit? >> Since the block number in the kernel buf struct is still a 32 bit integer (in FreeBSD release 4.9 at least), I would guess that FreeBSD can handle at most a Terrabyte (2^40 bytes) or two (if the block number is unsigned) on a single hard disk. If you try to make a single file system that large, you may find that things like fsck don't scale very well. Dan Strick strick@covad.net
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