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Date:      Mon, 21 Feb 2005 02:13:21 -0500
From:      Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org>
To:        ticso@cicely.de
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Subject:   Re: newfs limits? 10TB filesystem max?
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On Feb 19, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Bernd Walter wrote:

> However - you need your filesystem setup to support such large files.
> That is large fragments to allow large allocation chains with big
> fragments each.
> In my case I was limited to 128T and since I don't want to newfs the
> backing filesystem that's my limit for now without concatenating
> multiple of them.

You can do mdconfig -a -t swap -s 5000t instead, which won't be limited 
by the maximum file size.

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Suleiman Souhlal     | ssouhlal@vt.edu
The FreeBSD Project  | ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org



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