Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:30:15 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ext3: Extends blocksize up to pagesize |
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John Stoffel wrote:
>Takashi> As a disk tends to get large, a disk storage has had a >Takashi> capacity to supply multi-TB. But now, ext3 can't support >Takashi> more than 8TB filesystem when blocksize is 4KB. That's why I >Takashi> think ext3 needs to be more than 8TB. > >Man, I don't want to even think about doing an FSCK on an 8TB >filesystem running ext[23] at all. > >In that size range, you really need a filesystem which doesn't need an >FSCK at all. Not sure what the real answer is though... > > An fs that allows consistency checking while in use, perhaps? Then it doesn't matter if it takes days, for you can use the fs in the meantime.
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