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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: filesystems bigger than 16 TB?
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:35:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E03251F.4040603@wpkg.org> (raw)

With mkfs.ext4 from 1.41.14, it is not possible to create a filesystem 
which is bigger than 16 TB:


mkfs.ext4: Size of device /dev/sdb too big to be expressed in 32 bits
	using a blocksize of 4096.


But I see it succeeds with the latest git version of e2fsprogs.



The question is: how reliable such a filesystem is?

On a system which is supposed to be reliable, perhaps I'll be better off 
with xfs for such large filesystems?

I'm using Debian Squeeze, which has a 2.6.32 kernel.


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

             reply	other threads:[~2011-06-23 11:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-23 11:35 Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2011-06-23 20:56 ` filesystems bigger than 16 TB? Andreas Dilger
2011-06-27  0:40 ` Dave Chinner

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