Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: VFS/ext2fs - large files on the Alpha (fails for 17GB+) | Date | 20 Aug 1998 05:08:25 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9808192147430.1186-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk> By author: Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > and your maximum filesize goes up by function of: > > (blocksize/4)^3*blocksize ( plus epsilon from ^2 term..) > > > > 1k: 16 GB > > 2k: 262 GB > > 4k: 4096 GB > > 8k: 70 TB > > > > Propably you will be happy with 2k block size ;-) > > Does that means we *can* have a disk partition (or a RAID system) with a > max. size of 70TB with ext2fs on Intel platforms with a block size of 8192 > bytes? If so, will that be enough to satisfy one's lust for ever expanding > disk space.... >
Not on Intel platforms. We were talking about 64-bit architectures.
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