From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Barre Subject: Re: Fwd: Linux MD raid5 and reiser4... Any experience ? Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:50:25 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87oe2r2d93.fsf@rimspace.net> <43BE3C99.4050706@ieee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <43BE3C99.4050706@ieee.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > AFAIK, ext3 volume cannot be bigger than 4TB on a 32 bits system. > I think it is important you know that in case it could be a concern > for you. What ? What ? .... What ? Are you sure ? I may search for it more extensively... Anyway, the total size cannot be more than sizeof(block size) * block size, and with 32bits systems and 4k pages, that makes 16TB. Are you sure ? > XFS is finally much faster than EXT3 and self-defragmenting, but > that was not a concern for you anyway. Well, I'm currently looking at this solution... Never used XFS before, but I always been tought of it for as a good thing...