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From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
To: Cameron Bahar <CBahar@s8.com>,
	"'jfs-discussion@www-124.ibm.com'"
	<jfs-discussion@www-124.southbury.usf.ibm.com>
Cc: Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Jfs-discussion] maximum filesystem size limit
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:53:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210091153.59452.roy@karlsbakk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8D587D949A61D411AFE300D0B74D75D703F0BF1B@server.s8.com>

On Tuesday 08 October 2002 23:14, Cameron Bahar wrote:
> I need support for a single 12 TB filesystem on Linux. The documentation
> indicates that JFS supports a theoretical 4PB limit, but that other
> limitations (32 bit offsets) within limit prevent scaling to this large
> size.
>
> Can someone please tell me if I can use JFS to create a single 12TB
> filesystem under Linux?

Afaik, you have a problem here concerning the Linux 2.4 maximum block device 
size of 2TB.

Anyone that knows if there's a workaround for this using LVM or something?

roy

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       reply	other threads:[~2002-10-09  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <8D587D949A61D411AFE300D0B74D75D703F0BF1B@server.s8.com>
2002-10-09  9:53 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [this message]
2002-10-09 10:19   ` [Jfs-discussion] maximum filesystem size limit mdew
2002-10-09 10:25     ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-10-09 10:29       ` [Jfs-discussion] " Jens Axboe
2002-10-09 16:27       ` Mike Fedyk

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