What are the limits for FFS file systems? 10+ years out of date..

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Nov 24 14:21:46 UTC 2013


On Sat, 23 Nov 2013, John-Mark Gurney wrote:

> Attached is a patch that bring this up to date..  This was written back
> when we were using UFS1 w/ 32bit block addresses...  Things have changes
> now that UFS2 is standard...
>
> The big thing is listing the memory requirements for fsck as the main
> limiting factor on FS size...
>
> I've had Kirk review the patch, and he's fine w/ it...
>
> Shall I just commit it?

fsck should be either &man.fsck.8; or <command>fsck</command>, depending 
on context.

There is a duplicated "the" in the first paragraph.  igor -Rz should be 
run on the patched file.


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