On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:25:29PM +0100, Mark Knibbs wrote: > For whatever reason, it seems the maximum file size for that > partition is 17,247,252,480 bytes. In itself that behaviour isn't > necessarily a bug; but if you have any clue how the ext2 maximum file size > is related (or not) to the amount of free space or the volume size, please > let me know! You're using a filesystem with a 1k blocksize, and that's the cause of the limit. The maximum number of 1k blocks that can be addressed using the direct/indirect scheme is: 12 + 256 + 256*256 + 256*256*256 = 16843020 blocks or 16843020 blocks * 1024 bytes/block = 17,247,252,480 bytes Unless you are using a really tiny filesystem, you really don't want to be using 1k block sizes; in addition to imposing this 16GB file size limit, it also makes the filesystem much more inefficient for large files. Regards, - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
