Ken Preslan <kpreslan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: ... > For Linux 2.6 on a 32-bit platform, the max filesystem size is 16TB if > you trust the sign bit, 8TB if you don't. This limit comes from the > 32-bit page index in the "struct page": 2^32 * 4096 bytes/page = 16TB. > > For Linux 2.6 on a 64-bit platform, the max filesystem size is *big*. > Something around 2^64 bytes. I think I'm going to get an AMD64 machine and try a 20TB GFS fs. If anybody's aready doing this, I'd like to hear about it, esp. any gotchas. -- Ed L Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
