Subject: Re: FFS and Sizes
To: Ben Livingood <bgood@nervana.montana.edu>
From: Jake J Sadowski <austran@earthlink.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/17/1999 00:22:59
Wouldn't it be something like a terabyte ?

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From: <seebs@plethora.net>
To: Ben Livingood <bgood@nervana.montana.edu>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: FFS and Sizes


> In message <37DFD702.791095FA@nervana.montana.edu>, Ben Livingood writes:
> >If anyone happens to have this figure off the top of their head I would
> >be impressed but I was wondering what is the maximum size (if any) that
> >a ffs system could take? I'm trying to slap a 54 gig raid array with a
> >couple of ffs partitions and wanted to squeeze the most out of ffs I
> >could.
>
> You're not even within hailing distance.  The smallest maximum I can
imagine
> would be
> 2 billion * 512 bytes
> which gives you
> 1 billion * 1024 bytes
> and 1 billion K is 1 million M is 1,000 GB.
>
> -s
>