Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 00:56 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
On Apr 03, 2006 17:16 -0700, Brandon Evans wrote:
I need to setup a 3.27TB ext3 filesystem using -i 1024 and -b 1024.
When I try to format this partition I get the "Filesystem too large."
error. Are there any plans to update these limits? are there any
patches already available that I can try out? Or am I just SOL here?
The same patches that have been posted here (or maybe ext2-devel?)
to increase the fs size to 16TB are applicable in your case.
Yes; just note that with a 1k blocksize, 2^32 blocks will only get you
as far as 4TB, not 16TB. But yes, it should work.
However, 1k blocksize is usually a bad idea unless you really need the
very very best space efficiency on the filesystem: it usually performs
worse than 4k blocksize, and it imposes other limits such as a maximum
file size of a bit over 16GB. With 4k blocksize, a 3.27TB filesystem
should just work.
I should mention I have tried this on 2.6.14 and 2.6.8. From what I
have found, it seems thees kernels should already have the 16TB file
system support. Perhaps I am looking in the wrong place. Any help
finding this patch would be appreciated
--
Brandon Evans
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five
hours."
-Hunter S. Thompson
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