From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 18 15:12:21 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 0FED816A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:12:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44A9B43D46 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:12:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1IFCJaw017443; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:12:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <421605D0.80302@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:12:16 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Jacob References: <20050216224825.39102.qmail@web26807.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <4213D046.4080001@centtech.com> <7579f7fb05021715344d661662@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7579f7fb05021715344d661662@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/708/Thu Feb 17 16:37:03 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: newfs limits? 10TB filesystem max? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list 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 15:12:21 -0000 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. 5000TB?!?! How did you do that? Does anyone know of a way to build a simulated filesystem, for testing without a real 20TB disk array? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------