From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 14 01:39:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA14929 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 01:39:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from server1.wallnet.com (server1.wallnet.com [208.225.162.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA14924 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 01:39:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cweimann@server1.wallnet.com) Received: (from cweimann@localhost) by server1.wallnet.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id EAA11100 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 04:38:21 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19990114043820.B3568@wallnet.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 04:38:20 -0500 From: "Christopher S. Weimann" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How big can a FreeBSD filesystem be? References: <19990114112525.M8886@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990114112525.M8886@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 11:25:25AM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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