Subject: Re: Addiind a new filesystem support
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/03/2002 17:11:42
> FFS is 64bit and has been for a long time.
Well, sort of. it can handle files larger than 2^32 bytes, but it's
not fully 64-bit.
FFS still uses 32-bit block pointers, which causes it to max out at a
filesystem size of 2^41 or so.
Commodity disks now exceed 2^37 bytes. We've got less than 4 bits of
headroom.
- Bill