Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 17 Sep 1996 02:47:25 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Q: current limit of ext2fs ? |
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From: Herbert Rosmanith <herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 06:01:49 +0200 (MET DST)
what is the current limit for a single ext2fs partition ? is it possible to have a single 4G partition ?
The theoretical limit is 4TB (terrabytes); in practice, there may be some signed/unsigned bugs at 2TB (terrabyytes), or 2048GB. I've personally seen a 54GB e2fsck partition made, using a raid array at the last Berlin Linux conference.
(Alan promised me a GIF of the photograph he took of me and my laptop, which was hooked up via a PCMCIA SCSI card to a raid array, where we created a 54 GB filesystem using mke2fs, and then mounted using the Linux kernel and dropped some files onto said filesystem; Alan, did that photo ever come out? I want it for my ext2fs web page. :-)
- Ted
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