From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 5 16:24:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E02837B719 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:24:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f260Nrd24686; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 17:23:53 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200103060023.f260Nrd24686@harmony.village.org> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Subject: Re: Missing support in FreeBSD for large file sizes? Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Mar 2001 18:24:24 +0100." <13458.983813064@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <13458.983813064@verdi.nethelp.no> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 17:23:53 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <13458.983813064@verdi.nethelp.no> sthaug@nethelp.no writes: : What I can't understand is the reference to missing support for large : file sizes - as far as I know, that's one of FreeBSD's strengths! Anybody : care to guess what they mean here? It is crap. FreeBSD's API supports up to 2^63 byte files, but the kernel internal structures limit this to 2^41, or 2TB. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message