Christian Kujau said: > On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Ralf Gross wrote: >> I've a question about the max. ext3 FS size. The ext3 FAQ explains that >> the limit is 4TB. > > Hm, strange: I'm pretty sure that mkfs.ext3 understands bigger > blocksizes for quite a while now. Then again, the FAQ says > "Version: 2004-10-14"... > > So, although I'd really love to have this information (and the FAQ!) on > http://e2fsprogs.sf.net/ this is what I found: > > blocksize file size limit filesystem size limit > 1 KiB 16448 MiB (~ 16 GiB) 2048 GiB (= 2 TiB) > 2 KiB 256 GiB 8192 GiB (= 8 TiB) > 4 KiB 2048 GiB (= 2 TiB) 16384 GiB (= 16 TiB) > 8 KiB 65568 GiB (~ 64 TiB) 32768 GiB (= 32 TiB) > > Note that an 8 KiB blocksize is only supported on systems with 8 KiB > pagesize (i.e. linux/alpha). > > So, it really looks like 16TiB shouldn't be a problem...but I just > stumbled over this: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2006-October/msg00000.html Thus with 4 KiB blocksize and a < 8TiB fs I should be on the safe side. > While the ext* gurus are busy on the ext4 list, I too would appreciate > a comment on the current limitation of ext2/ext3/ext4, so that we can > update the FAQ. These questions really come up way too often... Yes, the FAQ is a bit misleading. ralf _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
