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From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI geometry on 9GB Seagate
Date: 4 Dec 1995 15:24:30 GMT
Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants
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In article <DJ1qtq.1v4@rci.ripco.com>, David Richards <dr@ripco.com> wrote:
> I know many other Unixes have a 2Gb limit due to the size of off_t-
> What's the maximum size limit on a single UFS filesystem? FFS?

In  4.4BSD derived systems   (NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD), the  filesystem
uses 64-bits off_t.

In FreeBSD, due to the VM, a single FS should be able to have 4 TB worth on
it and the current single *file* limit is 2 GB (31 bits).

[ Cc: to David ]
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