This is no doubt heresy coming from a newbie especially,
but I was reading that NetBSD can support at least up to
4TB:
   http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/features.html#large-filesystems

Walter

Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> "Joseph Gleason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > IIRC There was a 1TB limit on the size of any filesystem (or actually of any
> > block device) in FreeBSD based the kernel internaly using a 512 byte block
> > size and having a max of 2^31 blocks. (512*2^31 = 2^40 = 1TB)
> >
> > Do I remember correctly?
>
> Close, but not quite.  The kernel doesn't deal with blocks internally,
> and the block size used by the filesystem is 16k by default.
>

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