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Subject: Re: xfs not working properly 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 15:50:41 -0800
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>And there is the real fix (go to device/extent based caching and

   I don't agree with this. I prefer the existing model.

>clean up most of vfs_subr.c, especially the vclean crap), which
>introduces a 2G limit on logical device size instead of just a
>2G limit on open file size.  Unless we eat the additional overhead
>for 64 bit offsets in the VM systems.

   The file size limit is currently 1TB in FreeBSD. I have no interest in going
backwards.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project