Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:34:30 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mount_msdosfs -o large? Message-ID: <20081220173311.A9566@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <494CF98C.8080304@onetel.com> References: <494CF98C.8080304@onetel.com>
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> chrisw) > % > > However I can't find anything about the large option in man pages for mount, > mount_msdosfs or fstab. > > Would this be suitable text to go in the -o options section of > mount_msdosfs(8)? > > > large > Mount a filesystem larger than 128gb > > WARNING: This uses at least 32 bytes of kernel memory (which is not > reclaimed until the FS is unmounted) for each file on disk to map > between the 32-bit inode numbers used by VFS and the 64-bit > pseudo-inode numbers used internally by msdosfs. This is only > safe to use in certain controlled situations (e.g. read-only FS > with less than 1 million files). > Since the mappings do not persist across unmounts (or reboots), these > filesystems are not suitable for exporting through NFS, or any other > application that requires fixed inode numbers. > please do sent-pr with that. it is missing important part of manual.
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