FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Fri Feb 19 09:32:31 UTC 2010


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On 19/02/2010 00:28, Ghirai wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:21:48 -0500
> mailinglist <mailinglist at ucwv.edu> wrote:
> 
>> UFS on the other hand will work just fine on 32bit systems and
>> smaller and older machines.  (The limitation with UFS is a maximum
>> 2TB filesystem size, but I suspect this will not cause you any
>> practical
>>
>> difficulties.)
> 
> UFS2 has a maximum volume size of 1YiB (2^80 bytes).

Yes.  Brainfart: it's MBR that has the 2TB limit, and that can be
avoided nowadays by using gpart(8).

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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