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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, ritesh.list@gmail.com,
	Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>,
	Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: Max theoretical XFS filesystem size in review
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 22:39:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZcQGhFszPb5TaqA4@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZcQDrXwyKxfTYpfL@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 02:26:53PM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> I'd like to review the max theoretical XFS filesystem size and
> if block size used may affect this. At first I thought that the limit which
> seems to be documented on a few pages online of 16 EiB might reflect the
> current limitations [0], however I suspect its an artifact of both
> BLKGETSIZE64 limitation. There might be others so I welcome your feedback
> on other things as well.

Linux is limited to 8EiB as loff_t is signed ... I don't want to introduce
lllseek() to expand beyond 8EiB; I have reason to believe that we'll
have 128-bit registers in relevant CPUs before we can buy reasonably
priced arrays of drives that will reach 8EiB (and want to turn those
into a single block device).

See my Zettalinux presentation at Plumbers 2022 in Dublin (and that
reminds me, I really should do something with zettalinux.org)

  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-07 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-07 22:26 Max theoretical XFS filesystem size in review Luis Chamberlain
2024-02-07 22:39 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2024-02-07 23:54 ` Dave Chinner
2024-03-15  0:12   ` Luis Chamberlain
2024-03-15  1:14     ` Dave Chinner
2024-03-15  2:48       ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-15 17:52         ` Luis Chamberlain
2024-03-18  0:00           ` Dave Chinner

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