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>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Support tera byte disk
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:41:36 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020918224136.GW13929@clusterfs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1032387831.22773.27.camel@plokta.s8.com>
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/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-18 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-18 20:11 PATCH: Support tera byte disk H. J. Lu
2002-09-18 20:32 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-09-18 22:23 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2002-09-18 22:41 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2002-09-19 10:33 ` Mike Black
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