Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 11:52:48 -0500 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: "Mark Ovens" <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, "Albert Everett" <aeverett@webintl.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: maximum file size Message-ID: <02ce01beebf5$99d2da80$d4630a0a@megared.net.mx> References: <37BEB44E.29ED2CD4@webintl.com> <19990821153112.E267@marder-1>
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Hi,
How can I know the size of the blocks Im using in my system??? (FreeBSD
3.2 Release)
Thanks
Ales
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
To: Albert Everett <aeverett@webintl.com>
Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: maximum file size
> On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 09:14:39AM -0500, Albert Everett wrote:
> > Hopefully this will be a trivial question, but I haven't found the
answer yet
> > online or in Greg's FreeBSD book.
> >
> > How large can a file be under FreeBSD? I've heard that under Linux the
size
> > limit is 2gb.
> >
> > It's not difficult to imagine large log files resulting from a busy web
site,
> > but most documentation seems to be focused on minimums rather than
maximums.
> >
>
> According to the FAQ >4TB:
>
> 2.27. What are the limits for ffs filesystems?
>
> For ffs filesystems, the maximum theoretical limit is 8 terabytes
> (2G blocks), or 16TB for the default block size of 8K. In practice,
> there is a soft limit of 1 terabyte, but with modifications
> filesystems with 4 terabytes are possible (and exist).
>
> The maximum size of a single ffs file is approximately 1G blocks
> (4TB) if the block size is 4K.
>
> maxfilesize
> ----------------------------------
> 2.2.7 3.0
> fs block size -stable -current works should-work
> ------------- ------- -------- ----- -----------
> 4K 4T-1 4T-1 4T-1 4+T
> 8K 32+G 8T-1 32+G 16T-1
> 16K 128+G 16T-1 128+G 32T-1
> 32K 512+G 32T-1 512+G 64T-1
> 64K 2048+G 64T-1 2048+G 128T-1
>
> > Albert Everett
> > aeverett@webintl.com
> >
> >
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