Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 12:07:21 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@usrlib.org> Cc: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2GB filesize limit? Message-ID: <20010531120721.F96927@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20010531114130.A45461@core.usrlib.org>; from ajh3@usrlib.org on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:41:30AM -0500 References: <200105310943.f4V9hgX04825@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105300906180.38491-100000@heorot.1nova.com> <20010531114130.A45461@core.usrlib.org>
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--A9z/3b/E4MkkD+7G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:41:30AM -0500, Andrew Hesford wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:06:54AM -0700, Rick Hamell wrote: > >=20 > > > What is currently FreeBSD's max file size?=20 > >=20 > > Last I heard there was no known size... people have reported up to > > 60gig files though. :) > >=20 > > Rick > >=20 > > ******************************************************************* > > Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd > > Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware > > ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org >=20 > Maximum filesystem size is 2 gigablocks, maximum file size is 1 > gigablock. Actually the max FS size is 2^31 sectors (usually 512 bytes), not blocks. That comes out to 1 TB. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D859329+0+/usr/local/www/db/= text/2000/freebsd-hackers/20000220.freebsd-hackers > With the standard 8K block size, this means you can have a > filesystem 16TB big, and a file 8TB big. Ah yes, this explains my other message (I'm using 16k block sizes). Kris --A9z/3b/E4MkkD+7G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7FpZoWry0BWjoQKURAgApAJwOMfDO4At4LjoIxgxti98xFZi+swCeJ9Ck nma/QudxJFzXBDC5IGrWst8= =b8Od -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --A9z/3b/E4MkkD+7G-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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