From: remko@@@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:04:30 GMT (08:04 CET)
To: jhs@berklix.org, remko@freebsd.org, remko@freebsd.org

Synopsis: [patch] newfs_msdos(8): document 4.3g limit on files within FS created by newfs_msdos

State-Changed-From-To: patched->closed
State-Changed-By: remko
State-Changed-When: Fri Jan 28 07:04:30 UTC 2011
State-Changed-Why: 
It had been finally merged.. thanks for waiting soo long.

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Subject: Re: docs/112935: [patch] newfs_msdos(8): document 4.3g limit on files within FS created by newfs_msdos
From: gavin@FreeBSD.org
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:12:04 GMT (15:12 CET)
To: jhs@@berklix.org, gavin@@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org

Synopsis: [patch] newfs_msdos(8): document 4.3g limit on files within FS created by newfs_msdos

State-Changed-From-To: open->patched
State-Changed-By: gavin
State-Changed-When: Tue Jan 29 14:11:49 UTC 2008
State-Changed-Why: 
Patched in -HEAD

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=112935
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*** 6.2-RELEASE/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.8	Sun Feb 13 23:25:16 2005
--- new-generic/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.8	Thu May 24 11:57:52 2007
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*** 162,167 ****
--- 162,176 ----
      u_int16_t	bkbs;		/* [-k] backup boot sector */
  };
  .Ed
+ .Sh LIMITATION
+ Maximum file size within file system is about 4.3G, even if file system
+ is eg 5 to 10 Gig.  (Thus one cannot store a 4.7 Gig DVD .iso).
+ .Bd -literal
+ 4,294,963,200 on fdisk type  6 slice created & written by FreeBSD,
+ 4,294,963,712 on fdisk type 12 slice created & written by FreeBSD,
+ This is an (MS architectural?) limitation, not a BSD bug, as:
+ 4,294,959,616 on fdisk type 12 created by Win-XP, written by FreeBSD.
+ .Ed
  .Sh EXIT STATUS
  Exit status is 0 on success and 1 on error.
  .Sh EXAMPLES