Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:32:25 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> Cc: mailinglist <mailinglist@ucwv.edu>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS Message-ID: <4B7E5AA9.7040203@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100219022801.39b9590b.ghirai@ghirai.com> References: <93C575B79E9B01449EBBB084032BC570123208B75E@mail.ucwv.edu> <20100219022801.39b9590b.ghirai@ghirai.com>
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On 19/02/2010 00:28, Ghirai wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:21:48 -0500
> mailinglist <mailinglist@ucwv.edu> wrote:
>
>> UFS on the other hand will work just fine on 32bit systems and
>> smaller and older machines. (The limitation with UFS is a maximum
>> 2TB filesystem size, but I suspect this will not cause you any
>> practical
>>
>> difficulties.)
>
> UFS2 has a maximum volume size of 1YiB (2^80 bytes).
Yes. Brainfart: it's MBR that has the 2TB limit, and that can be
avoided nowadays by using gpart(8).
Cheers,
Matthew
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