From owner-freebsd-small Wed Sep 8 20:23: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9670914BF9 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 20:22:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27960; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 20:22:43 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199909090322.UAA27960@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Maximum storage volume on NetBSD / FreeBSD! In-Reply-To: <37D67643.72CB196C@netinsight.se> from Johan Rydberg at "Sep 8, 99 04:44:19 pm" To: johan.rydberg@netinsight.se (Johan Rydberg) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 20:22:42 -0700 (MST) Cc: jferg@2boot.com, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Johan Rydberg wrote: > >>>I have a related question >>>What is the largest single file that can be handled under -current? For >>>example, in Linux the largest volume limit (I forget the number) can >>>handle these mammoth IDE drives now available, but the largest file is >>>3GBytes (unless you patch the kernel) >> >>Sorry, operator error: make that 2 GBytes! FreeBSD can handle a filesystem, and a file, that's larger than the disk you can buy. About 2^64 bytes, to be exact. That would be 16 billion gigabytes (give or take a few). -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message