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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@usrlib.org>
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Subject: Re: 2GB filesize limit?
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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:41:30AM -0500, Andrew Hesford wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:06:54AM -0700, Rick Hamell wrote:
> >=20
> > > What is currently FreeBSD's max file size?=20
> >=20
> > 	Last I heard there was no known size... people have reported up to
> > 60gig files though. :)
> >=20
> > 	Rick
> >=20
> > *******************************************************************
> > Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd
> > Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware
> > ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org
>=20
> Maximum filesystem size is 2 gigablocks, maximum file size is 1
> gigablock.

Actually the max FS size is 2^31 sectors (usually 512 bytes), not
blocks.  That comes out to 1 TB.

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D859329+0+/usr/local/www/db/=
text/2000/freebsd-hackers/20000220.freebsd-hackers

> With the standard 8K block size, this means you can have a
> filesystem 16TB big, and a file 8TB big.

Ah yes, this explains my other message (I'm using 16k block sizes).

Kris

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