newfs limits? 10TB filesystem max?

[Eric Anderson]

Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 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' :)


That doesn't explain it much.. Is there a doc on how to create these sparse filesystems?

Eric


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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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