From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 17:14:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA20521 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 17:14:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from login.bigblue.no (root@login.bigblue.no [194.19.68.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA20516; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 17:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eagle.bigblue.no (froden@eagle.bigblue.no [194.19.68.13]) by login.bigblue.no (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA16472; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 02:12:21 +0200 Message-Id: <199609030012.CAA16472@login.bigblue.no> From: "Frode Nordahl" To: "Gary Palmer" Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.org" Date: Tue, 03 Sep 96 02:14:23 +0100 Reply-To: "Frode Nordahl" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Frode Nordahl's Registered PMMail 1.52 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Maximum filesystem size in FreeBSD? Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 31 Aug 1996 21:20:34 -0400, Gary Palmer wrote: >Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/ccd0c 19603558 9573267 8462007 53% /var/spool/news > >Runs *FINE* :-) > >And I've seen a single 9Gb drive with a single filesystem on it work >fine too. The problems occur with much larger (>512Gb I think) because >of the structure of the UFS/FFS filesystem performace starts >degrading, but it's ONLY performance, the stability isn't affected. That was a relief. I'm asking cause, for example Linux (EXT2) will give you MUCH trouble on disks larger than 2 GB.... --------------------------------- Frode Nordahl