From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 19 09:32:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38C54106566C for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:32:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FBA48FC08 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:32:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o1J9WP9v095518 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:32:26 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4B7E5AA9.7040203@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:32:25 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ghirai References: <93C575B79E9B01449EBBB084032BC570123208B75E@mail.ucwv.edu> <20100219022801.39b9590b.ghirai@ghirai.com> In-Reply-To: <20100219022801.39b9590b.ghirai@ghirai.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: mailinglist , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:32:31 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19/02/2010 00:28, Ghirai wrote: > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:21:48 -0500 > mailinglist 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 - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkt+WqkACgkQ8Mjk52CukIybegCcCusoKfR1KffSFSBHw/b3ecnP QLEAnjytMAYIF1Nu7hl5WyobRND1707V =SbT9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----