From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 18 14:36:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE4216A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:36:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF0843D2D for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:36:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [10.1.1.7]) (authenticated bits=0)j1IEZu3a003354 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:35:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (cicely12.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301::12]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1IEYx55059466 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:35:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1IEYx99011916; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:34:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j1IEYv15011915; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:34:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:34:57 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Matthew Jacob Message-ID: <20050218143456.GB11451@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <20050216224825.39102.qmail@web26807.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <4213D046.4080001@centtech.com> <7579f7fb05021715344d661662@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7579f7fb05021715344d661662@mail.gmail.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely12.cicely.de 5.2-CURRENT alpha User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on cicely12.cicely.de cc: FreeBSD Current cc: Eric Anderson Subject: Re: newfs limits? 10TB filesystem max? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:36:09 -0000 On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:34:27PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > BTW- be careful with very large filesystems on FreeBSD- at some point > fsck can't check them. > > I built a sparse 5000TB filesystem which newfs'd and mounted okay, but > was not possible to check with fsck. Since you already did: What disk space will such a filesystem take? -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de