From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 13 12:20:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0406716A4CE for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:20:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h76n3fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [213.67.148.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0284743F3F for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:20:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: (qmail 30040 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Nov 2003 20:20:16 -0000 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:20:16 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031113202015.GA28354@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20031113200712.GA35705@beast.clarksys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031113200712.GA35705@beast.clarksys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: File System Limits on FreeBSD-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:20:22 -0000 On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:07:12PM -0800, Max Clark wrote: > Hi all, > > What are the file system, file size limits for FreeBSD-stable? I > understand that there is a 2TB file system limit, but what about the > file size? I have a friend who cannot create a file over 2GB. Should > he be able to? Does 5.x handle this differently? I am not sure exactly what limit is for file size (among other things it depends on the block size used), but, just as for file system size, the limit is in the TB-range. It is most certainly possible to create files larger than 2GB. If your friend is unable to, he is doing something wrong. (All of the above applies for both 4.x and 5.x) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se