Subject: Re: giant filesystem: which type to use?
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/19/2005 00:00:07
> FFSv2 has twice metadata overhead and you don't need that for less
> than 2TB file systems.

FFSv1 would support >2TB filesystems (if you could define the disklabel)
the limit for FFSv2 is 2^32 fragments, not 2^32 sectors.

Also not that both FFSv1 and FFSv2 limit you to 2^31 inodes, they also both
have equally large numbers of cylinder groups for large FS.

	David

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