There was a scary discussion on port-vax a few days ago regarding the
workingness of filesystems larger than 4 GB in NetBSD 1.6.  Some people
experienced problems even without using softdeps (which I avoid, being
more tortoise than hare, more ant than grasshopper).  

I have a 1.4.2 system that I'm looking forward to bringing into the 21st
century, possibly even -current.  But hints of broken filesystems give me
the, uh, chills, particularly since I have two 10 GB partitions.  

Rather than starting a rumor or (not) acting on one, I'd like to ask:  Is
there any known problem with big ffs filesystems?  I checked the buglist
for kern; nothing says so.  

Thanks.

--jkl


Begin forwarded message:

Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 20:38:46 -0800 (PDT)
From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla@jarai.org>
To: John Klos <john@sixgirls.org>
Subject: Re: > 4 gig (was softdep)


> The issue is whether 1.5.2 or, perhaps, 1.5.3 even, can handle > 4 gig
> slices without eventual corruption.

Since 1.5 and 1.5.1 worked for you, I'd expect that 1.5.2, and 1.5.3
will work as well.  That is, unless the offending change was backported
into the 1.5 release branch.  Given the flow of NetBSD releases, the
change would've been introduced during the development releases that led
up to the 1.6 release.

See:

   |  --bugfixes--->
  1.5--1.5.1--1.5.2--1.5.3->
   |
  1.5A   \
   |      \
  1.5B     } evil change likely happened somewhere in here.
   |      /
  ...    /
   |
  1.6--[eventually 1.6.1]->
   |
  1.6A
   |
   v