From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Spelic Subject: On the 16TiB max file size limit (not filesystem limit) Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 23:00:29 +0200 Message-ID: <521135ED.6010101@shiftmail.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from srv2.trombetti.net ([65.254.53.252]:3280 "EHLO srv2.trombetti.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755394Ab3HRVWR (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:22:17 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: SASL) by srv2.trombetti.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 15D8031329 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:02:22 -0400 (EDT) Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Dear ext4 developers are there any plans to overcome the 16TiB maximum file size limit for ext4? Now that resize works across 16TiB boundary, many people could be interested in using ext4 as a slower but safer alternative to a distributed filesystem for large storages. However 16TiB filesize limit might be a problem if one wants to do big virtualization or anyway somehow nesting storage systems one into the other. Is the limit hard to fix? Thank you S.