On 3/9/13 4:39 PM, Pascal wrote: > Hello Ric, > > thank you for your answer. I am aware that there is a difference > between the maximum size under practical conditions and the theoretical > maximum. But I am looking for this theoretical number to use in within > in my thesis comparing file systems. A thesis comparing actual scalability would be much more interesting than one comparing, essentially, the container size chosen for a disk block. One could quickly write a filesystem which "can" be as large as a yottabyte, but it wouldn't really *mean* anything. -Eric _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs