On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 10:37:59 -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > I've searched a bit on the list archives, but didn't find an obvious answer > so I thought I'd ask: > > What is the maximum possible size of a UFS2 filesystem? Are there any > gotchas associated with going that large? > > What is the maximum possible file size on a UFS2 filesystem? Evidently there are some limits. I can create a 11TB filesystem, but I can only put 714GB or so on it: # dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1m /bigdisk: write failed, filesystem is full dd: bigfile: No space left on device 730368+0 records in 730367+0 records out 765845307392 bytes transferred in 11211.369691 secs (68309701 bytes/sec) # ls .snap/ bigfile # ls -la total 748261206 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jul 2 10:02 ./ drwxr-xr-x 21 root wheel 512 Jul 2 09:43 ../ drwxrwxr-x 2 root operator 512 Jul 2 09:39 .snap/ -rw------- 1 root wheel 765845307392 Jul 2 13:09 bigfile # dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile.2 bs=1m /bigdisk: write failed, filesystem is full dd: bigfile.2: No space left on device 257+0 records in 256+0 records out 268435456 bytes transferred in 3.409144 secs (78739843 bytes/sec) # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 507630 186246 280774 40% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev /dev/da0s1e 31515362 1301220 27692914 4% /usr /dev/da0s1d 507630 3470 463550 1% /var /dev/ccd0 11349755298 748523524 9693251352 7% /bigdisk # dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile.3 bs=1m /bigdisk: write failed, filesystem is full dd: bigfile.3: No space left on device 33+0 records in 32+0 records out 33554432 bytes transferred in 0.319315 secs (105082557 bytes/sec) # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 496M 182M 274M 40% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/da0s1e 30G 1.2G 26G 4% /usr /dev/da0s1d 496M 3.4M 453M 1% /var /dev/ccd0 11T 714G 9.0T 7% /bigdisk Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken_at_FreeBSD.ORGReceived on Fri Jul 02 2004 - 17:26:21 UTC
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