max fs size with 1k blocks
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Thu Jul 3 17:36:51 UTC 2008
Jure Pečar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> what is max ext3 filesystem size when mke2fs is called with -i 1024 -b 1024?
32-bit block number container, so 2^32 * 1024 = 4T.
>
> If rhel5 supports 8T ext3,
16T actually, in 2.6.19 and beyond (or distros which backported the fixes)
> I assume that is with 4k blocks, right?
Yep.
> So it is right to assume this number to be 2T with 1k blocks?
s/b 4T, see above.
> What about rhel4?
on pre-2.6.18/19 kernels there were really only 31 safe bits, so cut it
in half.
-Eric
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