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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: MAX Filesystem size
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 23:20:26 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: stacy@server-001.ey.ca, hackers@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199606112019.NAA04421@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jun 11, 96 01:19:07 pm
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As Terry Lambert wrote...
> 
> > Stacy's dumb question of the day.... what is the max. size for a ufs
> > filesystem on 2.1.0-R? Or, another way, how many 4GB drives can I
> > string together with ccd and make a single filesystem? :-)
> > 
> > I looked in TFM, but I couldn't find the answer.
> 
> 2TB or 512 4G drives.
> 

But expect some weirdness at sizes well below that 2Tb. I tested up
to 20G or so (with a hardware based raid).

With my current hardware I can go to 14*4.3Gb, so I'll (time
permitting) try that before 2.2R goes out

Wilko
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