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Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 11:05:20 +0530
From: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
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Subject: UFS2 max limits?
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The Wikipedia page referenced below says that UFS2 supports a
filesystem size of 2^80 Bytes (1YiB) with the limit on a given
file being 2^55 bytes (32 PiB).

Are these numbers correct?  I somehow remember the limits as
being much lower (of the order of 16TB or so).

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

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