On Oct 03, 2006 19:20 -0500, Damian Menscher wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Andreas Dilger wrote: > >On Oct 03, 2006 23:30 +0100, Chris Allen wrote: > >>Are we likely to see patches to allow 16TB ext3 in the mainstream > >>kernel any time soon? > > > >I think the patches are going into -mm (if not already), so start > >testing... > >If not, they have been posted here several times, along with a URL for > >download. > > Will those patches work to grow an existing ext3 filesystem to >8TB, or > do they only work on new filesystems (created with those patches or > other special options)? There are no special options or features needed to use > 8TB filesystems, just bug fixes in the kernel. > I ask because we need to create an <8TB filesystem now, but with the > option to grow it to >8TB in the future. I have never tested that, and I don't know anyone else who has. That said, I'm not aware of any inherent limitations on growing the filesystem up to 16TB. I haven't looked at that code for a long time, and never really with an eye toward scalability to 16TB. It definitely will NOT work to grow past 16TB at all. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
