[OpenAFS] volume and file size
Dj Merrill
deej@thayer.dartmouth.edu
Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:16:18 -0400
Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> - The size of volumes is a complicated question. No volume may have a
> quota larger than 2^31-1 blocks, with each block representing 1K of
> storage (for the math-impaired, that's 2TB). However, volumes may
> have infinite quota, in which case any amount of storage may be used.
> Some other information about disk usage is also stored in 32-bit
> fields, so information about the amount of storage used by a volume
> may take on nonsensical volumes once more than 2^31-1 blocks are used,
> if the fileserver lets you do that at all.
Hi Jeffrey,
I'm quite glad to hear this. Where did I come up with
an 8GB volume size limit? Was there a limit previously,
and it has since been "fixed" ?
Thanks,
-Dj