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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: max. file size
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:06:16PM -0400, Nathan Mace wrote:

> whats the max file size for a single file in freebsd 4.4?  and does
> this change with soft-updates enabled/disabled?  i doubt it makes a
> difference but i thought i'd ask to be sure

It depends on your filesystem options (block size), but it's 8
terabytes (1 gigablock) with the default newfs options.  Softupdates
doesn't change anything.

Kris

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