Ext3 used in server -- Thanks

Andreas Dilger adilger at clusterfs.com
Tue Oct 12 07:33:41 UTC 2004


On Oct 12, 2004  10:28 +0800, zhan songling wrote:
> i want to use Ext3 as journal file system in a server, and there are 
> several requirements:
> 1,the largest file should be no smaller than 1TB
> 2,the largest file syetem should be no smaller than 4TB
> 3,the max file name should be no less than 255 bytes
> does Ext3 fix it? or how could i do to solve this requirements?

Is this for a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel?  In 2.4 you can't even have block devices
larger than 2TB, and in 2.6 the maximum (32-bit CPU) limit is 16TB.  In
theory ext3 can support a 4TB filesystem and 1TB files.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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