diff --git a/doc/man/s3fs.1 b/doc/man/s3fs.1 index afc6f4c..2117884 100644 --- a/doc/man/s3fs.1 +++ b/doc/man/s3fs.1 @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ Most of the generic mount options described in 'man mount' are supported (ro, rw There are many FUSE specific mount options that can be specified. e.g. allow_other. See the FUSE README for the full set. .SH NOTES .TP -Maximum file size=64GB (limited by s3fs, not Amazon). +The maximum size of objects that s3fs can handle depends on Amazone S3. For example, up to 5 GB when using single PUT API. And up to 5 TB is supported when Multipart Upload API is used. .TP If enabled via the "use_cache" option, s3fs automatically maintains a local cache of files in the folder specified by use_cache. Whenever s3fs needs to read or write a file on S3, it first downloads the entire file locally to the folder specified by use_cache and operates on it. When fuse_release() is called, s3fs will re-upload the file to S3 if it has been changed. s3fs uses md5 checksums to minimize downloads from S3. .TP