newfs limits? 10TB filesystem max?

Wilko Bulte wb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Fri Feb 18 17:28:36 GMT 2005


On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 09:12:16AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote..
> 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? 

Note the word 'sparse' :)

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