Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Andreas Baer wrote: > > >>I think it's 2TB for the file size and 2e73 for the file system, > > > Note that there is no fsck that will check a filesystem > much larger than a TB or so in any reasonable amount of > time. > > If something goes wrong with your system (as invariably > happens with any computer), you might just end up waiting > days for fsck to finish. > > I am hoping that cluster filesystems may be able to > bring relief here, with the fsck pretending to be just > another node in the cluster and doing the fsck while > the system is running. > Yes, no problem about that. It's just theoretical. > >>but I don't understand the second reference and the part about the >>CONIFG_LBD. What is exactly the CONFIG_LBD option? > > > CONFIG_LBD makes your system use 64 bit sector numbers, on > 32 bit computers. This slows down computation a little bit > (I'm not sure it is measurable), but allows you to use way > larger block devices. > So in other words, both the file size and the file system limit is 2e73 using CONFIG_LBD option, right? And 2TB are always possible? Sorry, but I need to get pretty sure. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
