From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 19 22:16:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B34816A4CE for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:16:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34FEA43D45 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:16:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.24] (andersonbox4.centtech.com [192.168.42.24]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1JMGf8k096337; Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:16:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4217BAC5.10504@centtech.com> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:16:37 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wilko Bulte References: <20050216224825.39102.qmail@web26807.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <4213D046.4080001@centtech.com> <7579f7fb05021715344d661662@mail.gmail.com> <421605D0.80302@centtech.com> <20050218172831.GA9944@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050218172831.GA9944@freebie.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/711/Sat Feb 19 12:27:09 2005 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: Matthew Jacob cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: newfs limits? 10TB filesystem max? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:16:46 -0000 Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 09:12:16AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote.. > >>Matthew Jacob wrote: >> >>>BTW- be careful with very large filesystems on FreeBSD- at some point >>>fsck can't check them. >>> >>>I built a sparse 5000TB filesystem which newfs'd and mounted okay, but >>>was not possible to check with fsck. >> >>5000TB?!?! How did you do that? > > > Note the word 'sparse' :) That doesn't explain it much.. Is there a doc on how to create these sparse filesystems? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------