Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:11:34 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: maynardm@ibm.net, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Filesystem Message-ID: <199610171311.IAA04055@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961016232016.3139E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Oct 16, 96 11:24:28 pm
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> On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, W Mark Maynard II wrote: > > > Can someone tell me what filesystem FreeBSD uses? Also, are there any > > special limitations (max partition size, max file size, filename length > > restrictions, etc.)? > > FreeBSD uses a modified Berkeley UFS for it's native filesystem. > > As far as we know, in -current, there is no maximum filesystem size. > Current tests (using the ccd concatecated disk driver) show that > filesystems upwards of 4 terrabytes are possible (with some modifications > to the filesystem code which I believe have been committed to -current). > > Max file size is 2GB. > Actually, the max file size under -current is really big.... I think that it is at least 512GB!!! We have a hard limit of (1<<39) in the code, but that might not be all that it is capabile of. If someone starts seeing that as a problem, then we'll look at checking it out further. John
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