From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 18:31:49 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 4736337B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:31:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.radzinschi.com (pcp02453773pcs.owngsm01.md.comcast.net [68.55.91.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB4143E77 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:31:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marco@radzinschi.com) Received: from localhost (marco@localhost.radzinschi.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.radzinschi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA72Vchj085732; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 21:31:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marco@radzinschi.com) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 21:31:38 -0500 (EST) From: Marco Radzinschi To: Walter Cc: FreeBSD-Question Subject: Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit In-Reply-To: <3DC851B8.ED6B077F@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <20021106212845.Y85722-100000@radzinschi.com> 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 Pity I didn't know about this before I built two 1200 MB arrays. Linux and FreeBSD both died past 1 TB, so I had to make the array smaller. I have used NetBSD before, so this would not have been a problem. I should have done my homework. :-) Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Walter wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message