Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 11:08:21 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Missing support in FreeBSD for large file sizes? Message-ID: <20010306110821.H13082@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200103060023.f260Nrd24686@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 05:23:53PM -0700 References: <13458.983813064@verdi.nethelp.no> <200103060023.f260Nrd24686@harmony.village.org>
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On Monday, 5 March 2001 at 17:23:53 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > 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. In fact, at the moment we don't seem to be able to build file systems of more than 1 TB. This may be a bug. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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