Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:58:08 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@usrlib.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: "Knut A. Syed" <Knut.Syed@nhh.no>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2GB filesize limit? Message-ID: <20010531225808.A46862@core.usrlib.org> In-Reply-To: <20010531120348.E96927@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:03:48PM -0700 References: <200105310943.f4V9hgX04825@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20010531033048.A89957@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010531033616.A90245@xor.obsecurity.org> <s3ielt5eo2u.fsf@kas.nhh.no> <20010531120348.E96927@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:03:48PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:48:41PM +0200, Knut A. Syed wrote: > > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: > > > > > A quick test with truncate(1) shows that you can create sparse files > > > up to 16TB in size. > > > > ??? > > > > $ truncate -s 8191G /tmp/foo.test > > $ truncate -s 8192G /tmp/foo.test > > truncate: /tmp/foo.test: File too large > > $ uname -r > > 4.3-RELEASE > > $ > > xor# uname -a > FreeBSD xor.obsecurity.org 4.3-RC FreeBSD 4.3-RC #13: Sat Apr 14 00:11:45 PDT 2001 kkenn@xor.obsecurity.org:/mnt/src-4.x/sys/compile/MOLLARI i386 > xor# truncate -s 16383G big > xor# ls -l big > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 17591112302592 May 31 12:02 big > > (Okay, I meant (16TB - 1 byte) :-) > > Kris This discrepancy gets back to the 1 gigablock file limit I was talking about. Obviously Kris has a filesystem with 16K blocks, whereas Mr. Syed and I have 8K blocks in our filesystems. My maximum file size is 8TB-1byte. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@usrlib.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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