Subject: Re: Huge (> 1TB) disk
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/13/2002 20:39:45
Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com> writes:
> Actually, I don't think that this will help, at least for ffs file systems.
> You need to crank the sector size to 1024 bytes from 512 bytes to have an
> ffs file system larger than 1 TB (1024 GB), because ffs has a signed 32 bit
> quantity for disk block addresses, and 2^(31+9) == 1 TB.
We really should fix this. The limitations in FFS are largely
artificial -- an ffs2 that did 64 bit quantities for all these things
would be very straightforward to produce.
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