On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this is really a misc@ question, so I'll post my answers there.
> I just like to know if the FFS/UFS was modified or if the Limit is still 1TB?
Yes, limit is still 1TB.
> If so: Is it planed to e.g. update to (maybe) UFS2 or modify the existing
> UFS/FFS to support bigger FSs?
Existing UFS/FFS code cannot be updated to use bigger filesystems. I
don't know when UFS2 support will be available.
> I ask because serval cheap fileservers use IDE/SATA-Raids and these HDDs
> get bigger and bigger (I just notice it, please don't say "use SCSI" ;) ).
> 400GB HDDs aren't that expensiv either that's why I ask.
Having a large drive does not imply having a large file system. In
general, it is not wise not make you file systems very big: backing up
and fsck'ing the filesystems becomes a pain.
> Crypto related: What's the limit of the svnd?
> I used up to 40GB svnd-Partitions but somewhere I read that the "limit"
> should be somewhere around 8GB.
I've used some pretty big (up to 1TB) svnd's for testing fdisk and
disklabel, and never saw problems. These svnd's were not encrypted.
I'll test encrypted large svnd's some time in the future.
-Otto
