Maximum file system size of Fedora?

[Micheal Clark]

Matthew Miller wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:10:57PM +0800, Gallon Wong wrote:
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>> I will have a 900GB to 2TB Raid 5 system, does Fedora support it? Which
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>Probably, assuming the hardware is supported. Ext3, the default filesystem,
>supports up to 4TB on 32-bit hardware (and up to 16TB on bigger archs --
>possibly more, but I've never had the pleasure of having to worry about that
>limit). I believe ReiserFS supports up to 16TB on all architectures. XFS is
>limited to 16TB on 32-bit systems and 9 exabytes (!) on 64-bit systems.
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>> version of Fedora will be better for file sharing only?
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>FC3, probably.
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>>        What is the max. size of filesystem do Fedora OS support? Where can i get
>>detailed or official info?
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><http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html> is one place.
><http://www.namesys.com/faq.html#reiserfsspecs> for ReiserFS.
><http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/index.html> for XFS.
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>There's also IBM's JFS, but I know very very little about that.
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::peeks out from behind his meager RS/6000::

JFS suppors up to 1 TB for 32 bit ,  4 petabytes for the "Enhanced JFS" 
that runs on 64 bit kernels.

Noteworthy is the fact is that currently, if I remember right, AIX will 
only support up to 16 TB, but that might have changed since 5.3.

MC