ext3 4TB fs limit on amd64 (FAQ?)
Chris Allen
chris at cjx.com
Wed Dec 13 13:47:06 UTC 2006
Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Ralf Gross wrote:
>> I've a question about the max. ext3 FS size. The ext3 FAQ explains that
>> the limit is 4TB.
>
> Hm, strange: I'm pretty sure that mkfs.ext3 understands bigger
> blocksizes for quite a while now. Then again, the FAQ says "Version:
> 2004-10-14"...
>
> So, although I'd really love to have this information (and the FAQ!) on
> http://e2fsprogs.sf.net/ this is what I found:
>
> blocksize file size limit filesystem size limit
> 1 KiB 16448 MiB (~ 16 GiB) 2048 GiB (= 2 TiB)
> 2 KiB 256 GiB 8192 GiB (= 8 TiB)
> 4 KiB 2048 GiB (= 2 TiB) 16384 GiB (= 16 TiB)
> 8 KiB 65568 GiB (~ 64 TiB) 32768 GiB (= 32 TiB)
>
> Note that an 8 KiB blocksize is only supported on systems with 8 KiB
> pagesize (i.e. linux/alpha).
>
>
We use 6TB ext3 filesystems over vanilla Fedora Core 5 on several
heavily loaded systems.
All perform fine without any obvious problems.
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