Re: Creating a >32bit blocks filesystem.

[Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@bull.net>]

Jose R. Santos wrote:
> I think this has more to do with the fact that I'm on a 32bit
> architecture and there are still a couple places where blocks are
> represented using "unsigned long".  I'm trying to get access to a 64bit
> arch to confirm this.
> 
> -JRS
> 
Oh, I didn't catch that you use a 32-bit system.
On 32-bit architectures, the page cache index size imposes a 16TB limit 
on the filesystem size (with 4KB blocksize). So you need a 64-bit system 
for your test.
   Valérie