Re: 2**31-1 blocks question

[Stephen Samuel <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems to me that Mag is running a somewhat older system. That would explain the problems
with expanding ext3 past 8TB.  Perhaps this would be a good excuse to plan an upgrade to the OS, and maybe also the hardware.

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mag Gam wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> Basically, I should avoid creating such a large filesystems.

... on ext3.  Other filesystems can handle this better; ext4 should
be quite useable up to 16T, others can go larger still.

-Eric

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