Pity I didn't know about this before I built two 1200 MB arrays.  Linux
and FreeBSD both died past 1 TB, so I had to make the array smaller.

I have used NetBSD before, so this would not have been a problem.  I
should have done my homework. :-)

Marco Radzinschi
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On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Walter wrote:

> 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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