From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 15:18:18 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 C34D637B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:18:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33EB643E42 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:18:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walterk1@earthlink.net) Received: from user-0cal9lv.cable.mindspring.com ([24.170.166.191] helo=earthlink.net) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 189Cxc-0001r7-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 15:18:16 -0800 Message-ID: <3DC851B8.ED6B077F@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 18:18:17 -0500 From: Walter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Question Subject: Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 This is no doubt heresy coming from a newbie especially, but I was reading that NetBSD can support at least up to 4TB: http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/features.html#large-filesystems Walter Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "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. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message