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* BUG: >16TB Btrfs volumes are mountable on 32 bit kernels
@ 2014-02-27 21:05 Chris Murphy
  2014-02-27 21:07 ` Josef Bacik
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Chris Murphy @ 2014-02-27 21:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Btrfs BTRFS

User reports successfully formatting and using an ~18TB Btrfs volume on hardware raid5 using i686 kernel for over a year, and then suddenly the file system starts behaving weirdly:

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg31856.html


I think this is due to the kernel page cache address space being 16TB limited on 32-bit kernels, as mentioned by Dave Chinner in this thread:

http://oss.sgi.com/pipermail/xfs/2014-February/034588.html

So it sounds like it shouldn't be possible to mount a Btrfs volume larger than 16TB on 32-bit kernels. This is consistent with ext4 and XFS which refuse to mount large file systems.



Chris Murphy

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2014-02-27 21:05 BUG: >16TB Btrfs volumes are mountable on 32 bit kernels Chris Murphy
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2014-02-28  4:38   ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-28 13:05     ` Josef Bacik

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