newfs limits? 10TB filesystem max?

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely12.cicely.de
Mon Feb 21 07:58:47 GMT 2005


On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 02:13:21AM -0500, Suleiman Souhlal wrote:
> 
> On Feb 19, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Bernd Walter wrote:
> 
> >However - you need your filesystem setup to support such large files.
> >That is large fragments to allow large allocation chains with big
> >fragments each.
> >In my case I was limited to 128T and since I don't want to newfs the
> >backing filesystem that's my limit for now without concatenating
> >multiple of them.
> 
> You can do mdconfig -a -t swap -s 5000t instead, which won't be limited 
> by the maximum file size.

But won't help you much in analysing problems after a panic.

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