Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

Alex Tomas
2006-06-09T20:55:17Z

>>>>> Linus Torvalds (LT) writes:

LT> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
LT> Btw, where did that 2TB limit number come from? Afaik, it should be 16TB
LT> for a 4kB filesystem, no?

2TB => 16K group descriptors * 8 (sizeof(void*) on 64bit arch) => 128K -- slab limit

we have a fix for this as well.

thanks, Alex