From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 8 16: 1:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-107-4.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.107.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8284637B417 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:01:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DB86666C7A; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:01:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:01:36 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: aaron Cc: dooleyr@missouri.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This is probably a FAQ question... Message-ID: <20020108160136.A75254@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200201082329.g08NT9v70337@meta.lo-res.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200201082329.g08NT9v70337@meta.lo-res.org>; from aaron@lo-res.org on Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:29:07AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:29:07AM +0100, aaron wrote: > Hm, ok the FAQ, but.... > recently - as seen on the well known mailing lists - there was a post > that 48bit addressing is now available. If I understood it correctly this > should give you (at least!) 2^48 =3D 256 TBytes. >=20 > But I myself would like to know if this calculation is correct. > (or is it 2^48 blocks?) Device size !=3D Partition size !=3D Filesystem size !=3D File size 48-bit addressing is for addressing raw disk blocks on the device. Kris --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8O4hfWry0BWjoQKURAggaAKD4qK0b8obj7ytjshLkxQES5xSI+ACfeuKh akLqMLQvtDNeAOiIbBguDgg= =H4rJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message