Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:04:09 +0200 From: Etienne Ledoux <etienne@unix.za.org> To: Desmond Phoon <beastie@streamyx.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: maximum size of ufs file system Message-ID: <200409231504.09376.etienne@unix.za.org> In-Reply-To: <001401c4a16d$3c0c6910$6500a8c0@p4> References: <001401c4a16d$3c0c6910$6500a8c0@p4>
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you might be right. I just did a quick search on google about ufs filesystem and copy/pasted my answer from some SUN documentation on ufs. On Thursday 23 September 2004 14:59, Desmond Phoon wrote: > I do not agreed that regular file size limit only up to 2Gb, I tried once > written a program to write to a file, which able to exceed 6Gb (of course I > stop it after that). > > And I have checked struct stat in the include file /usr/include/sys/stat.h > and it shows the filesize is off_t (which is int64) in current > implementation, so I assume it is 2^63 size. > > Please correct me if I'm wrong b'cos I would like to know this too. > > Regards, > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Etienne Ledoux > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:14 PM > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: maximum size of ufs file system > > > A UFS file system can be as large as 1 Tbyte (terabyte) and can have > regular > > files up to 2 Gbytes > > On Thursday 23 September 2004 14:07, Anatoliy Dmytriyev wrote: > > Hello, everybody! > > > > Do you know somebody maximum size of ufs file system? (not ufs-2). > > 1 or 2 TB? > > I'm sorry but I did not find answer in man pages and handbook. > > > > Regards, > > Anatoliy Dmytriyev > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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