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Date:      Thu, 9 May 2002 11:42:08 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Jon Ringuette <wintermute@imeme.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Terabyte array
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0205091134530.2943-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <3CD9BB43.1060904@imeme.net>

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On Wed, 8 May 2002, Jon Ringuette wrote:

> Sorry to bother everyone, but I am about to embark on building a
> Terabyte array using an Adaptec 5400S controller and around 15 SCSI
> 181gb drives.  My question is if FreeBSD's filesystem can support a
> terabyte on a single label and also what is the current restrictions on
> max file size?

31 bits' worth of 512-byte sectors for FS size - I think that comes out
at 1TB.

File byte count is a u_int64_t, so it's limited by FS size too.


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