Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:41:36 -0600 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: Support tera byte disk |
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On Sep 18, 2002 15:23 -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 13:32, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > There's also a limit where statfs() overflows at 16TB for 4kB block > > filesystems... Ask me how I noticed this ;-) > > Well, the whole world goes pear-shaped on ia32 with >16TB filesystems, > so statfs is the least of your worries in that case :-(
Why do you say that? I've been testing with 60TB or larger filesystems all week ;-). Note that we can use more than a single block device and/or remote storage target to store data, so block device limits are not applicable to us, although 16TB files are a limit we will hit soon.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
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