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On Feb 19, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Bernd Walter wrote:

> However - you need your filesystem setup to support such large files.
> That is large fragments to allow large allocation chains with big
> fragments each.
> In my case I was limited to 128T and since I don't want to newfs the
> backing filesystem that's my limit for now without concatenating
> multiple of them.

You can do mdconfig -a -t swap -s 5000t instead, which won't be limited 
by the maximum file size.

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