Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 03:36:16 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2GB filesize limit? Message-ID: <20010531033616.A90245@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20010531033048.A89957@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:30:48AM -0700 References: <200105310943.f4V9hgX04825@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20010531033048.A89957@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:30:48AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:43:42AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > >=20 > > What is currently FreeBSD's max file size?=20 >=20 > The better question is probably "what is FreeBSD's maximum file system > size?" to which the answer is currently "1 Terabyte". You can make > sparse files much larger than that, but that's the maximum amount of > data you can store in a single file(system). A quick test with truncate(1) shows that you can create sparse files up to 16TB in size. Kris --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7Fh6fWry0BWjoQKURAqlbAJ4+MnPCqpbZShyz9KT9smr8L9MG8gCfcGBZ YOBnIbJODTeXqep2F1cpjYY= =3jPn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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