VERITAS File System 3.5 (HP OnlineJFS/JFS 3.5) Administrator's Guide (August 2003)

Appendix C

Disk Layout

The VxFS Version 5 Disk Layout

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terabytes in size. For 64-bit kernels, the maximum size of the ﬁle system you can create depends on the block size:

NOTE Sector size in bytes speciﬁed by the DEV_BSIZE system parameter.

If you specify the ﬁle system size when creating a ﬁle system, the block size defaults to the appropriate value as

shown above (see the mkfs(1M) manual page for more information).

The Version 5 disk layout also supports up to 1024 access control list entries.

Table C-1 Block Size and Maximum File System Size

Block Size

Maximum

File

System,

Size

1024 bytes 4,294,967,039

sectors (≈

4 TB)

2048 bytes 8,589,934,078

sectors (≈

8 TB)

4096 bytes 17,179,868,15

6 sectors (≈

16 TB)

8192 bytes 34,359,736,31

2 sectors (≈

4 TB)