Re: Maximum file system size of XFS?

Eric Sandeen
2013-03-10T01:10:11Z

On 3/9/13 4:39 PM, Pascal wrote:

> Hello Ric,
>
> thank you for your answer. I am aware that there is a difference
> between the maximum size under practical conditions and the theoretical
> maximum. But I am looking for this theoretical number to use in within
> in my thesis comparing file systems.

A thesis comparing actual scalability would be much more interesting
than one comparing, essentially, the container size chosen for a disk
block. One could quickly write a filesystem which "can" be as large
as a yottabyte, but it wouldn't really *mean* anything.

-Eric