[OpenAFS] Maximum partition size limitation

Horst Birthelmer horst@riback.net
Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:22:48 +0200


On Aug 27, 2004, at 11:01 PM, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> Horst Birthelmer wrote:
>
>>
>> On Aug 26, 2004, at 10:52 PM, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>>
>>> A volume has a file size limit of X in OpenAFS 1.3 (2GB in 1.2), and 
>>> a volume size limit of Y.  But also remember the AFS volumes are 
>>> stored within a filesystem on the file server and that has its own 
>>> limits depending on the version of the OS you're running.
>>>
>>> So what are the theoretical and known working values of X and Y?
>>>
>>
>> X would be the biggest 64 Bits number on Linux and AIX (AFAIK) 2GB on 
>> the rest of them.
>
> Windows is limited to 2GB files?  Say it aint so!

I don't know about Windows the only windows AFS client I have is an old 
one.