CephFS and max file size

The task at hand was easy. Platform Engineering (PE) wants to re-create the filesystem for a NVram drive which holds a database. The database itself is around 9TB, but the size is nothing unusual for us. Plus we have procedures to take this database out of production for a prolonged period. All good. Or so I thought. First confirm that the database is no longer in production. Confirmed. Shut it down....