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Re: FFSv1 (UFS1) vs FFSv2 (UFS2)



tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost writes:

>I guess that my uncertainty about FFSv1 vs FFSv2 comes partly from this
>confusion between fdisk(8) vs gpt(8) and the 32bits limit and the 
>mention of > 1To in newfs(8) man page.

FFSv1 also has a 32bit (or rather 31bit) limit. Since it counts fragments,
not physical disk blocks, the effective limit for the filesystem size
varies between 1TB (512byte fragments) and 128TB (64kByte fragments).

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