From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 14 15:52: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-76-236.knology.net [24.214.76.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0FCB37B423 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 15:51:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3EMpuP66579; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 17:51:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200104142251.f3EMpuP66579@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Rick Knebel Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file size In-Reply-To: Message from Rick Knebel of "Sat, 14 Apr 2001 18:27:04 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 17:51:56 -0500 From: David Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Knebel writes: > Is there any limit to the size of an individual file on freebsd. > I know on Linux it is 2 Gigs. There is a standard answer for this somewhere in the archives as there is a limit to the size of a FreeBSD file. Its not the pathetic 2G that previous Linux filesystems have been limited to. Whatever FreeBSD's filesize limit is, I suspect nobody has ever reached it. Disk drives are not big enough yet. Not even combining with RAID. I'v casually pushed 6G to 15G files around in FreeBSD for years. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message