Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 23:54:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web40410.mail.yahoo.com (web40410.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.107]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h7G6sXFl017204 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 23:54:34 -0700 Message-ID: <20030816065428.56233.qmail@web40410.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.123.165.52] by web40410.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 23:54:28 PDT Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 23:54:28 -0700 (PDT) From: girish dudhe Subject: How large file store in XFS To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 56 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: girish_dudhe@yahoo.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs Content-Length: 576 Lines: 21 hi all, In XFS,whole file systen is divided into number of allocation group. e.g. Consider size of the file system is 1GB ,then it will create eight allocation group that means each has 125 MB.Each allocation Group has its own inodes and data blocks. Now I want to store the file of size 500MB.How it gets stored ? Whether it gets stores in one allocation group or multiple allocation group? Thanks in advance , Girish __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com