From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
Cc: Stephan van Hienen <raid@a2000.nu>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
tbm@a2000.nu
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: fsck out of memory
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:21:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030211202157.Q5992@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1044993857.6640.7.camel@plokta.s8.com>; from bos@serpentine.com on Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:04:17PM -0800
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:04:17PM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> The nominal limit on device/filesystem size looks to be 16TB on a 32-bit
> platform, but there are dozens of sign truncation errors throughout the
> VFS and block layers that are unlikely to get fixed. Hence, 8TB it is.
and even this isn't a hard limit. if we actually make PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
larger, then we can grow devices by the same factor. of course, everybody
should switch to 64-bit machines.
--
"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies.
Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-11 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-07 15:17 fsck out of memory kernel
2003-02-07 15:41 ` Wim Vinckier
2003-02-07 15:50 ` kernel
2003-02-07 16:09 ` Wim Vinckier
2003-02-07 16:15 ` Stephan van Hienen
2003-02-07 16:20 ` Wim Vinckier
2003-02-07 17:08 ` Stephan van Hienen
2003-02-07 16:16 ` Wim Vinckier
2003-02-07 17:07 ` Stephan van Hienen
2003-02-07 17:28 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-02-09 10:08 ` Stephan van Hienen
2003-02-09 10:32 ` Stephan van Hienen
2003-02-09 20:08 ` Peter Chubb
2003-02-10 11:28 ` Stephan van Hienen
2003-02-09 20:31 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-02-10 12:01 ` Stephan van Hienen
[not found] ` <3E479CC7.B170D5C7@aitel.hist.no>
2003-02-11 16:14 ` Re:2TB+ fs ext3 (was fsck out of memory) Stephan van Hienen
2003-02-10 22:44 ` [Ext2-devel] Re: fsck out of memory Stephen C. Tweedie
2003-02-11 13:11 ` Stephan van Hienen
2003-02-11 14:33 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2003-02-11 20:04 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-02-11 20:21 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2003-02-11 20:32 ` Re:2TB+ fs ext3 (was fsck out of memory) Stephan van Hienen
2003-02-07 17:24 ` fsck out of memory Andreas Dilger
[not found] <5250726@toto.iv>
2003-02-13 3:30 ` [Ext2-devel] " Peter Chubb
2003-02-13 4:01 ` Randy.Dunlap
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