On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 01:05:03PM -0500, Ken Preslan wrote: > 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. That means that you need to have a cluster of equal-bit-arch members? One can certainly not add a 32-bit cluster member to a 64-bit > 16TB crafted cluster. What about smaller sized filesystems? Would 32bits and 64bits work nicely together, or are there more barriers? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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