multi terabyte disk arrays

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Wed Oct 22 15:20:51 PDT 2003


On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Mark Nipper wrote:

> 	I'm not sure if this is an NFS restriction or an actual
> userland utility restriction, but I have a 4-STABLE machine NFS
> mounting a 5.1-RELEASE machine that is exporting an approximately
> 1.6T disk array, and df on my 4-STABLE machine gives:
> ---
> host:/home2 -508991530 159283464 -668274994   -31% /home2

Based on a recent discussion, this is a limitation of statfs, which uses
32 bit counters.  kirk wants to make a new 64-bit statfs to fix this
problem. Stay tuned.

Your filesystem is fine, just the numbers will be a little wonky. :)

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