file size limit for the ext3 file system

[Ed Wilts]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:48:58PM -0400, Michael Gargiullo wrote:
> I believe the filesize limit for ext3 is 2 Gigs.

I believe you're not only wrong, you're not even close.  I'm fairly
confident that a 1 TB limit is more current.  Here's a quick creation of
a 12GB file.

[ewilts at scsftp ewilts]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=big.file bs=1M count=12000
12000+0 records in
12000+0 records out
[ewilts at scsftp ewilts]$ ls -lh big.file
-rw-rw-r--    1 ewilts   ewilts        12G Oct 14 16:42 big.file
[ewilts at scsftp ewilts]$ uname -a
Linux scsftp.icrp.mrll.com 2.4.21-15.0.4.ELsmp #1 SMP Sat Jul 31 01:25:25 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[ewilts at scsftp ewilts]$ df -T /home
Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p9
              ext3    31428256  12805968  17025788  43% /home

> Check out xfs

Why?

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