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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
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