Messages in this thread | | | From | "Mike Black" <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: Support tera byte disk | Date | Thu, 19 Sep 2002 06:33:45 -0400 |
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Ummm...could you edumacate us on how one constructs a 60TB file system on IA32??? I thought 2TB was the limit. I'm particularly interested if this is RAID too (I'm a RAID5 fan). I'm trying to avoid NAS for my next file system upgrade.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Dilger" <adilger@clusterfs.com> To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com> Cc: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>; "linux kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 6:41 PM Subject: Re: PATCH: Support tera byte disk
> On Sep 18, 2002 15:23 -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 13:32, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > > > There's also a limit where statfs() overflows at 16TB for 4kB block > > > filesystems... Ask me how I noticed this ;-) > > > > Well, the whole world goes pear-shaped on ia32 with >16TB filesystems, > > so statfs is the least of your worries in that case :-( > > Why do you say that? I've been testing with 60TB or larger filesystems > all week ;-). Note that we can use more than a single block device > and/or remote storage target to store data, so block device limits are > not applicable to us, although 16TB files are a limit we will hit soon. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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