Re: PATCH: Support tera byte disk

Andreas Dilger (adilger@clusterfs.com)
Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:41:36 -0600

On Sep 18, 2002 15:23 -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 13:32, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> > There's also a limit where statfs() overflows at 16TB for 4kB block
> > filesystems... Ask me how I noticed this ;-)
>
> Well, the whole world goes pear-shaped on ia32 with >16TB filesystems,
> so statfs is the least of your worries in that case :-(

Why do you say that? I've been testing with 60TB or larger filesystems
all week ;-). Note that we can use more than a single block device
and/or remote storage target to store data, so block device limits are
not applicable to us, although 16TB files are a limit we will hit soon.

Cheers, Andreas

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Andreas Dilger
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/


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