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Date:      Sat, 6 Jul 2002 17:46:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org>, ticso@cicely.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How does swap work address spacewise?
Message-ID:  <200207070046.g670kiQ3064200@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <20020705234126.GA12183@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <3D2640A7.3EA2236B@pantherdragon.org> <20020706020656.GL48977@cicely5.cicely.de> <3D2762FE.9D9E0378@pantherdragon.org> <20020706220720.GG23704@cicely5.cicely.de> <3D277274.B5F3CE58@pantherdragon.org> <3D2776BE.A39A1110@mindspring.com> <20020706231346.GJ23704@cicely5.cicely.de> <200207062342.g66NgMri063859@apollo.backplane.com> <20020707001019.GK23704@cicely5.cicely.de> <20020707004304.GL23704@cicely5.cicely.de>

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:> > 
:> >     Physical block numbers are 512-byte sized, with a range of 2^32
:> >     in -stable.  This also winds up being 2TB.  So increasing the fragment
:> >     size does not help in -stable.
:> 
:> It's a proven fact that there is a 1T limit somewhere which was
:> explained with physical block numbers beeing signed.
:
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:B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de

   fsck and newfs would be unhappy with a 2TB sized filesystem (in stable),
   at least one with 512 byte sectors, due to internal math overflows but
   I think that's the only 1TB vs 2TB issue.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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