[OpenAFS-devel] Max /vicep partition size?

[Zach Schimke]

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I'm going to play it dumb and not look at the source. Is there a
(good) reason for this limit?

- -Zach

Alf Wachsmann wrote:
> 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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