From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: Sandon Van Ness <sandon@van-ness.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
Alan Piszcz <ap@solarrain.com>
Subject: Re: Is EXT4 the right FS for > 16TB?
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:30:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D0E5D67.6060504@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1012191412520.27130@p34.internal.lan>
On 12/19/10 1:14 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
>> On 12/19/10 10:53 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Wow, there were no updates though after Eric's last comment..
>>> Eric, have there been any improvements in the past 6 months?
>>>
>>> Or should one still steer clear from EXT4 > 16TB?
>>
>> There is still no released e2fsprogs which supports > 16T for
>> ext4, but testing of the not-released bits is welcomed...
>> Ted says a 16T-capable version is coming soon. There's still
>> work to be done there, though.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>
> Thanks Eric for confirming.
>
> With 7 x 3TB HDD its now possible to breach 16TB (16.38TB) in RAID-5 so I
> suppose more people may start asking about this.
Agreed, 16T is not that much these days.
As Ric said, XFS will handle it without problem, though.
-Eric
> Justin.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-19 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-19 11:52 Is EXT4 the right FS for > 16TB? Justin Piszcz
2010-12-19 16:35 ` Sandon Van Ness
2010-12-19 16:53 ` Justin Piszcz
2010-12-19 17:01 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-12-19 17:14 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-12-19 19:14 ` Justin Piszcz
2010-12-19 19:30 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2010-12-19 22:21 ` Ric Wheeler
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