From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 21 07:58:47 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 5613D16A4CE; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 07:58:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5964643D54; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 07:58:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [10.1.1.7]) (authenticated bits=0)j1L7was1004614 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:58:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (cicely12.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301::12]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1L7vt55081792 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:57:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1L7vttG033199; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:57:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j1L7vswS033198; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:57:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:57:54 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Suleiman Souhlal Message-ID: <20050221075754.GK14312@cicely12.cicely.de> 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> <4217BAC5.10504@centtech.com> <20050220000418.GU14312@cicely12.cicely.de> <4217DC90.5090202@centtech.com> <20050220020525.GV14312@cicely12.cicely.de> <818327a8016d57a190841b5d8494f77e@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <818327a8016d57a190841b5d8494f77e@FreeBSD.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely12.cicely.de 5.2-CURRENT alpha User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Report: * -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on cicely12.cicely.de cc: Matthew Jacob cc: FreeBSD Current cc: Eric Anderson cc: ticso@cicely.de cc: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: newfs limits? 10TB filesystem max? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 07:58:47 -0000 On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 02:13:21AM -0500, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > > 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. But won't help you much in analysing problems after a panic. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de