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From: Devin Teske <devin.teske@fisglobal.com>
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Subject: RE: fs size
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:24:24 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friedrich Locke [mailto:friedrich.locke@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 10:19 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: fs size
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> i wonder what is the maximum file system size FBSD can handle ? What is
the
> name of file systems fbsd supports ? Anyone using large partitions with
fbsd
> ? What is your experience using fbsd with large partitions ?
> 
> 

FreeBSD-0 through FreeBSD-4 use UFS1 -- partition limit of 2TB
FreeBSD-5 through FreeBSD-8 offer UFS2 -- partition limit 2^64-1 (Exabytes)
FreeBSD-8 through CURRENT offer ZFS -- partition limit 2^128-1 (Zettabytes)

I don't think anybody has created a filesystem beyond a few Petabytes, so
UFS2 still meets the needs of "can I make a large partition" (read: if
that's
all you care about, there's no need to jump from 2^64-1 max to 2^128-1 max;
however, ZFS offers so much more than just a bump to the maximum partition
size -- albeit to an untenable value).
-- 
Devin

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