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Date:      Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:57:54 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
To:        Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Subject:   Re: newfs limits? 10TB filesystem max?
Message-ID:  <20050221075754.GK14312@cicely12.cicely.de>
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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



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