Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 18:18:17 -0500 From: Walter <walterk1@earthlink.net> To: FreeBSD-Question <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit Message-ID: <3DC851B8.ED6B077F@earthlink.net>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
This is no doubt heresy coming from a newbie especially, but I was reading that NetBSD can support at least up to 4TB: http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/features.html#large-filesystems Walter Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Joseph Gleason" <clash@tasam.com> writes: > > > IIRC There was a 1TB limit on the size of any filesystem (or actually of any > > block device) in FreeBSD based the kernel internaly using a 512 byte block > > size and having a max of 2^31 blocks. (512*2^31 = 2^40 = 1TB) > > > > Do I remember correctly? > > Close, but not quite. The kernel doesn't deal with blocks internally, > and the block size used by the filesystem is 16k by default. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3DC851B8.ED6B077F>