From d12eb987d4250fd9bca7f86579c97782917d7860 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 10:53:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix ffs limits.

Submitted by: bruce
---
 FAQ/install.sgml | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/FAQ/install.sgml b/FAQ/install.sgml
index 5ea777b5b1..68d18c9f2e 100644
--- a/FAQ/install.sgml
+++ b/FAQ/install.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Id: install.sgml,v 1.9 1998-08-18 23:26:50 dwhite Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: install.sgml,v 1.10 1998-09-06 10:53:07 wosch Exp $ -->
 <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
 
   <sect>
@@ -542,11 +542,16 @@ disk            wd2     at wdc1 drive 1 # change from wd3 to wd2
      has been tested; you generally can't buy i386 PCs that can support
      much more than that.
 
-     <p>For filesystems, the maximum theoretical limit is 8 terabytes.  In
-     practice, there is a soft limit of 1 terabyte, but with modifications
+     <p>For ffs filesystems, the maximum theoretical limit is 8 terabytes
+     (2G blocks), or 16TB for the default block size of 8K.
+     In practice, there is a soft limit of 1 terabyte, but with modifications
      filesystems with 4 terabytes are possible (and exist).
 
-     <p>The maximum size of a single file is 2 gigabytes.
+     <p>The maximum size of a single ffs file is approximately 1G blocks 
+     (4TB) if the block size is 4K, else approximately
+     2G blocks.  Files with holes may be larger than the filesystem. 
+     Bugs in the filesystem code actually limit the maximum file size 
+     to approximately (blocksize / 4)**2 blocks.
 
   </sect>