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max capacity of ufs
Name: toyo Date: September 18, 2002 at 05:37:46 Pacific OS: Solaris CPU/Ram: SPARC
Comment:
Hello All,
How large capacity Solaris 7,8,9 can have file system (ufs) ?
Name: Mark M Date: September 18, 2002 at 17:48:08 Pacific
Reply:
Well seeing as UFS can support files larger than 2GB no problem with the largefiles mount option, I would think that the file system size is not the problem. I'd say that you are only limited by the amount of inodes available on the filesystem (which won't really be a problem as long as you're not storing thousands upon thousands of very small files on a volume).
the df command will show you how many more files you can create on each system.
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Response Number 2
Name: toyo Date: September 19, 2002 at 01:07:14 Pacific
Reply:
Thank you for reply. But I will use RAID. That RAID's capacity is 2.2TB(one LUN). So I want to make large filesystem in one slice(partition). Can I make 2.2TB ufs filesystem?
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Response Number 3
Name: Mark M Date: September 19, 2002 at 15:59:27 Pacific
Reply:
I don't see why not. The only real problems people seem to get is when the hard drive is directly connected to the machine and it's an older solaris revision which needs a patch.
Hardware RAID arrays handle are less problematic in this sense it seems, although why you want 2.2TB is beyond me :)
Perhaps someone else can throw some more solid info into this post?
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Response Number 4
Name: === Date: September 19, 2002 at 22:19:02 Pacific
Reply:
"due to file system overhead, the largest UFS file size (Not the Filesystem) that can be created is 866 Gbytes"
:-according to sun student guide SA238
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