Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 20:56:09 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> To: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: off_t governs the largest file size, correct? Message-ID: <20011214205608.E22150@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <15384.58121.214749.505032@chlx169.ch.intel.com> References: <15384.58121.214749.505032@chlx169.ch.intel.com>
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:19:05AM -0700, John Reynolds~ wrote: > > Hi all, > > I searched the mailing list archives looking for this information and all I > found was a reference to a somewhat seemingly out-dated FAQ entry: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#AEN1006 > > fs block size 2.2.7-stable 3.0-current works should work > 4K 4T-1 4T-1 4T-1 >4T > 8K >32G 8T-1 >32G 32T-1 > 16K >128G 16T-1 >128G 32T-1 > 32K >512G 32T-1 >512G 64T-1 > 64K >2048G 64T-1 >2048G 128T-1 > > The statement before this table is: > > "The maximum size of a single ffs file is approximately 1G blocks (4TB) if > the block size is 4K." > > Are this statement and these numbers still "correct" for 4.4-STABLE and/or > -CURRENT? 8k blocksize works up to 8TB on alpha-current: ticso@cicely9# ls -al test -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8388609048576 Dec 14 20:50 test I have tried 9000000 MB which failed. But keep in mind that the maximum size of a single filesystem is still 1TB, which restricts you to use sparse files. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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