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Date:      Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:47:22 +0000
From:      Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com>
Cc:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mount_msdosfs -o large?
Message-ID:  <494D2FAA.5060300@onetel.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081220173311.A9566@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <494CF98C.8080304@onetel.com> <20081220173311.A9566@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> chrisw)
>> %
>>
>> However I can't find anything about the large option in man pages for 
>> mount, mount_msdosfs or fstab.
>>
>> Would this be suitable text to go in the -o options section of 
>> mount_msdosfs(8)?
>>
>>
>> large
>>     Mount a filesystem larger than 128gb
>>
>> WARNING: This uses at least 32 bytes of kernel memory (which is not
>> reclaimed until the FS is unmounted) for each file on disk to map
>> between the 32-bit inode numbers used by VFS and the 64-bit
>> pseudo-inode numbers used internally by msdosfs. This is only
>> safe to use in certain controlled situations (e.g. read-only FS
>> with less than 1 million files).
>> Since the mappings do not persist across unmounts (or reboots), these
>> filesystems are not suitable for exporting through NFS, or any other
>> application that requires fixed inode numbers.
>>
> 
> please do sent-pr with that.
> 
> it is missing important part of manual.
> 

done

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