Re: maximum size of ufs file system

From: Etienne Ledoux (etienne_at_unix.za.org)
Date: 09/23/04

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    To: Desmond Phoon <beastie@streamyx.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:04:09 +0200

    you might be right. I just did a quick search on google about ufs filesystem
    and copy/pasted my answer from some SUN documentation on ufs.

    On Thursday 23 September 2004 14:59, Desmond Phoon wrote:
    > I do not agreed that regular file size limit only up to 2Gb, I tried once
    > written a program to write to a file, which able to exceed 6Gb (of course I
    > stop it after that).
    >
    > And I have checked struct stat in the include file /usr/include/sys/stat.h
    > and it shows the filesize is off_t (which is int64) in current
    > implementation, so I assume it is 2^63 size.
    >
    > Please correct me if I'm wrong b'cos I would like to know this too.
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
    > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Etienne Ledoux
    > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:14 PM
    > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
    > Subject: Re: maximum size of ufs file system
    >
    >
    > A UFS file system can be as large as 1 Tbyte (terabyte) and can have
    > regular
    >
    > files up to 2 Gbytes
    >
    > On Thursday 23 September 2004 14:07, Anatoliy Dmytriyev wrote:
    > > Hello, everybody!
    > >
    > > Do you know somebody maximum size of ufs file system? (not ufs-2).
    > > 1 or 2 TB?
    > > I'm sorry but I did not find answer in man pages and handbook.
    > >
    > > Regards,
    > > Anatoliy Dmytriyev
    >
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