"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.

> Is this still the case?

> A client wants to build a system with over 1TB on a single filesystem and I
> need to see if FreeBSD can support it.

These have existed for quite some time, but you can't do it out of the
box.  I don't have my hands on how to do it, but you should be able to
track it down.

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