UFS filesystem size limit

Hiten Pandya hmp at backplane.com
Fri Sep 2 05:46:35 PDT 2005


Dave Hayes wrote:
For reference, I'm using:

# uname -sv
DragonFly DragonFly 1.3-Preview #0: Fri Jul  8 14:09:49 CEST 2005
 root at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 

I have created a vinum partition that is 1.12 terabytes. As some of
you may expect, /sbin/newfs is not happy with this size (# sectors in
partition > max value for a signed 32 bit integer).
It sounds like this is the time to do the 64-bit cleanup work for the IO 
system and port UFS2. :-)

				-Hiten





More information about the Users mailing list