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 C
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