newfs limits? 10TB filesystem max?

[Eric Anderson]

Matthew Jacob wrote:
> BTW- be careful with very large filesystems on FreeBSD- at some point
> fsck can't check them.
> 
> I built a sparse 5000TB filesystem which newfs'd and mounted okay, but
> was not possible to check with fsck.

5000TB?!?!   How did you do that? 

Does anyone know of a way to build a simulated filesystem, for testing without a real 20TB disk array?

Eric


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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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