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Date:      Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:23:41 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Gary Corcoran <garycor@comcast.net>
Cc:        Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
Subject:   Re: ZFS
Message-ID:  <20040916132246.G11659@odysseus.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <4149DBCF.8010908@comcast.net>
References:  <41483C97.2030303@fer.hr> <Pine.LNX.4.60.0409151047230.21034@athena> <Pine.GSO.4.61.0409161010020.29724@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <Pine.GSO.4.61.0409161528520.29724@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <4149D73C.5030309@comcast.net><4149DBCF.8010908@comcast.net>

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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Gary Corcoran wrote:

> Yeah, okay, there's multiple definitions of what "64-bit filesystem"
> is referring to.  So what are FreeBSD's current filesystem limitations?
> 2^64 bytes files, and 2^64 blocks per filesystem?  But I seem to recall
> some problems as people were approaching a terabyte or two ???
>
> Gary

Scott Long is addressing this:

http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/

(To sum up, the filesystem is fine with > 1TB, the utilities aren't.)

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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