From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: filesystems bigger than 16 TB?
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:40:23 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110627004023.GE32466@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E03251F.4040603@wpkg.org>
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:35:59PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> 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?
Regardless of the filesystem or the feature, if it is not in
officially released packages, do you really want to risk your
production data on an experimental filesystem/feature?
> 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.
On a 2.6.32 kernel, I'd strongly recommend using XFS for >16TB
filesystems....
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-23 11:35 filesystems bigger than 16 TB? Tomasz Chmielewski
2011-06-23 20:56 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-06-27 0:40 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
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