Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:50:03 -0700 (PDT) From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/18485: Dont let filesys go over 4G if not supported Message-ID: <200005101950.MAA04049@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/18485; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To: boxiao63@hotmail.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/18485: Dont let filesys go over 4G if not supported
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:36:39 -0700
>>Description:
>Since 32 bit couter only go as high as 4.2G, no filesys over
>that size should be allowed. With today's disk size, users
>will attempt to do just that. Either labeling or newfs should
>catch it.
>
>Many unexpected/unpredictable error happen when using the fs
>portion beyond a 32 bit counter can count.
There are many production filesystems that are much much larger than that
and have no problems. Can you be more specific about the trouble you are
having? FreeBSD uses 64bit ints to store things that can be larger than
32bits.
-DG
David Greenman
Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com
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