ext3 limits?

[Jordi Prats]

Just 4TB? Anyone can give any recommendation witch file system to use 
for large disks?

Thanks,
Jordi

Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Mon, April 28, 2008 12:49, Jordi Prats wrote:
>   
>> I have a 4246GB ext3 filesystem exported by NFS on a 32 bits
>> architecture. Some applications are generating estrange errors, so maybe
>> I'm facing a ext3 limit?
>>     
>
> http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html says:
>
>    Ext3 can support files up to 1TB. With a 2.4 kernel the filesystem size
>    is limited by the maximal block device size, which is 2TB. In 2.6 the
>    maximum (32-bit CPU) limit is of block devices is 16TB, but ext3
>    supports only up to 4TB.
>
>
> HTH,
> C.
>   


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