On Sun 18-08-13 23:00:29, Spelic wrote: > Dear ext4 developers > are there any plans to overcome the 16TiB maximum file size limit for ext4? > > Now that resize works across 16TiB boundary, many people could be > interested in using ext4 as a slower but safer alternative to a > distributed filesystem for large storages. However 16TiB filesize > limit might be a problem if one wants to do big virtualization or > anyway somehow nesting storage systems one into the other. Is the > limit hard to fix? It would mean an incompatible on disk format change in the format of extent. So it's doable but definitely not trivial. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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
