From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 16:40: 9 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 709D337B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 16:40:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.radzinschi.com (pcp02453773pcs.owngsm01.md.comcast.net [68.55.91.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E61C43E6E for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 16:40:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marco@radzinschi.com) Received: from localhost (marco@localhost.radzinschi.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.radzinschi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA50dshj066280; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 19:39:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marco@radzinschi.com) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 19:39:54 -0500 (EST) From: Marco Radzinschi To: Joseph Gleason Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit In-Reply-To: <001101c28430$4372aa40$08695f0a@frigate> Message-ID: <20021104193856.A66265-100000@radzinschi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 I was unable to get past 1 TB on 4.6.2-Release on i386. Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Joseph Gleason wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message