On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:35:59PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > With mkfs.ext4 from 1.41.14, it is not possible to create a > filesystem which is bigger than 16 TB: > > > mkfs.ext4: Size of device /dev/sdb too big to be expressed in 32 bits > using a blocksize of 4096. > > > But I see it succeeds with the latest git version of e2fsprogs. > > > > The question is: how reliable such a filesystem is? Regardless of the filesystem or the feature, if it is not in officially released packages, do you really want to risk your production data on an experimental filesystem/feature? > On a system which is supposed to be reliable, perhaps I'll be better > off with xfs for such large filesystems? > > I'm using Debian Squeeze, which has a 2.6.32 kernel. On a 2.6.32 kernel, I'd strongly recommend using XFS for >16TB filesystems.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
