ext3 limits?
Jordi Prats
jprats at cesca.es
Tue Apr 29 14:47:51 UTC 2008
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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