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To: David Dougall <davidd@et.byu.edu>
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Subject: Re: maximum filesystem size
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David Dougall wrote:
> 
> What is the largest filesystem that the freebsd kernel can support?

128TB, since the sign bit is used for indirection, and
triple indirect is as deep as it goes.

According to IDG, this is about 16 times the non duplicated
information accessible via the internet without a site login
or search to expose database contents, as of March, 2001.

-- Terry

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