From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Sep 16 18:23:45 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B8C16A4CE
	for <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:23:45 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from relay.pair.com (relay.pair.com [209.68.1.20])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1E3243D39
	for <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:23:44 +0000 (GMT)	(envelope-from silby@silby.com)
Received: (qmail 21635 invoked from network); 16 Sep 2004 18:23:43 -0000
Received: from niwun.pair.com (HELO localhost) (209.68.2.70)
  by relay.pair.com with SMTP; 16 Sep 2004 18:23:43 -0000
X-pair-Authenticated: 209.68.2.70
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:23:41 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To: Gary Corcoran <garycor@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <4149DBCF.8010908@comcast.net>
Message-ID: <20040916132246.G11659@odysseus.silby.com>
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>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
cc: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
Subject: Re: ZFS
X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD
	<freebsd-hackers.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers>,
	<mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers>,
	<mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:23:45 -0000


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