Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:22:24 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> Cc: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: off_t governs the largest file size, correct? Message-ID: <20011214122224.E81485@nexus.root.com> In-Reply-To: <20011214205608.E22150@cicely8.cicely.de>; from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 08:56:09PM %2B0100 References: <15384.58121.214749.505032@chlx169.ch.intel.com> <20011214205608.E22150@cicely8.cicely.de>
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>8k blocksize works up to 8TB on alpha-current: >ticso@cicely9# ls -al test >-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8388609048576 Dec 14 20:50 test > >I have tried 9000000 MB which failed. > >But keep in mind that the maximum size of a single filesystem is still >1TB, which restricts you to use sparse files. Actually, the largest device size that FreeBSD (at least x86) supports is 1TB. This is because daddr_t (the type used to specify physical disk block addresses) is a signed int, which is 31bits worth of 512 byte blocks. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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