From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 10:30:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9855937B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:30:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from zogbe.tasam.com (63-165-178-196.uterr.blacksburg.ntc-com.net [63.165.178.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C941543E75 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:30:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clash@tasam.com) Received: from frigate (root@zogbe.tasam.com [10.95.95.5] (may be forged)) by zogbe.tasam.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id gA4IUZEL033157 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:30:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <001101c28430$4372aa40$08695f0a@frigate> From: "Joseph Gleason" To: Subject: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:30:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG IIRC There was a 1TB limit on the size of any filesystem (or actually of any block device) in FreeBSD based the kernel internaly using a 512 byte block size and having a max of 2^31 blocks. (512*2^31 = 2^40 = 1TB) Do I remember correctly? Is this still the case? A client wants to build a system with over 1TB on a single filesystem and I need to see if FreeBSD can support it. Thanks for your time. --Joe Gleason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message