ext3 - max filesystem size

[Malcom]

Hi,

On Sat, March 18, 2006 19:02, Malcom wrote:
> > ext3 unfortunatelly only supports filesystem size up to 8TB, do you have
>
> > an idea if / when this border will be increased ? I already found some
> > discussions on LKML about it ?
>
> according to [0] the max. filesystem size seems to be "2TiB to 32TiB",
> which depends on the blocksize with which the fs has been created, iirc.



You're right, but isn#t it fixed with RH 4 ? My information is RH 4 only
supports ext3 with max 8 TB

Is it possible to be tuned by myself ?




> > Which FS would be a goof alternative ? AFAIK xfs is not suported by
> > redhat el 4 ...
>
> doesn't Redhat ship with GFS too? might be exactly what you need for a
> cluster...



I will check it ...



Alex




> Christian.
>
> [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
> --
> BOFH excuse #442:
> Trojan horse ran out of hay
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