ZFS

Mike Silbersack silby at silby.com
Thu Sep 16 11:23:45 PDT 2004


On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Gary Corcoran wrote:

> Yeah, okay, there's multiple definitions of what "64-bit filesystem"
> is referring to.  So what are FreeBSD's current filesystem limitations?
> 2^64 bytes files, and 2^64 blocks per filesystem?  But I seem to recall
> some problems as people were approaching a terabyte or two ???
>
> Gary

Scott Long is addressing this:

http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/

(To sum up, the filesystem is fine with > 1TB, the utilities aren't.)

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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