From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 14 12: 9:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA4D137B43B; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:08:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with UUCP id fBEK63u92126; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 21:06:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely20.cicely.de [10.1.1.22]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id fBEJuStx034256; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 20:56:28 +0100 (CET)?g (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.2.10]) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fBEJuRW11884; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 20:56:27 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBEJuAc25407; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 20:56:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 20:56:09 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: John Reynolds~ Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: off_t governs the largest file size, correct? Message-ID: <20011214205608.E22150@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <15384.58121.214749.505032@chlx169.ch.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15384.58121.214749.505032@chlx169.ch.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely8.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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