Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 04:38:20 -0500 From: "Christopher S. Weimann" <cweimann@wallnet.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How big can a FreeBSD filesystem be? Message-ID: <19990114043820.B3568@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <19990114112525.M8886@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 11:25:25AM %2B1030 References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990113130007.27893C-100000@ws098> <19990114112525.M8886@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 11:25:25AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > How Big a file system will FreeBSD support (including all the disk > > tools)? > > The simple answer is ``larger than you can build''. The largest I've > seen is about 60 GB, but 4.4BSD has 64 bit pointers, so I suppose the > answer must be something like 9.2 Exabytes (if that's the correct > unit; anyway, 9.2 * 10**18 bytes, or 9.2 million terabytes). Possibly > some other problem would limit things more. > When I was running 2.1.7.1 it was incapable of fsck'ing a 32 GB ccd filesystem. Since this was my news spool it wasn't a big deal because I could newfs the drive and start fresh if there ever was a problem ( which naturally there was ) but it was anoying. Once I upgraded to 2.2.7 fsck had no problem with the 32 GB ccd. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Christopher Weimann SysAdmin Wall Internet LLC. Email: cweimann@wallnet.com PO Box 255 Web: http://www.wallnet.com/~cweimann Manasquan NJ, 08736 732-223-1777 ------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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