[OpenAFS-devel] Max /vicep partition size?

[Alf Wachsmann]

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Zach Schimke wrote:
> # df -h /vicepa
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb1             6.4T  182M  6.4T   1% /vicepa
> # vos partinfo afs8
> Free space on partition /vicepa: -1791928152 K blocks out of total
> -1791742380
> # touch mer
> touch: cannot touch `mer': No space left on device
>
> Seems like some value in the source should be a 64-bit unsigned long?
> I can, however, add replication sites to this large partition.

This is a known limitation:
2 TB is the theoretical limit for /vicep partitons and also for
volumes. However, there is a practical limit of ~1.4TB per partion.

-- Alf.

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