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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2000 16:25:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        John Milford <jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Filesystem size limit?
Message-ID:  <200002160025.QAA46340@apollo.backplane.com>
References:   <200002151924.LAA02584@soda.csua.Berkeley.edu>

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:> ie: there is a signed 32 bit sector count limit.  2^31 == 1TB.  It shouldn't
:> be too hard to get it to create 2^32 bit (2TB) filesystem though.  I'd expect
:> there to be more problems that this to bite you though. :-(
:>
:> 2^31 also happens to be the mmap() file offset limit FWIW.

    No it isn't.  mmap() (under FreeBSD) takes an off_t for the file offset,
    so the file offset limit is 2^63.  The size of your map is limited to
    the size of the user address space minus things already mapped -- 
    around 3 GB on IA32.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>


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