Re: max xfs file sizes vs ext2?

[Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charlie Bryant wrote:

> perhaps this info exists but i'd like to boil things down in one place.
>
> can someone provide data summarizing the maximum file size and file system
> size using a ia-32 host running linux 2.4?
>
>                                 ia-32 host
>                                 file system
>                                 ext2                            xfs
>                                 ----                            ----
> max file size           2gb (lseek32)           ?

XFS and ext2 will have the same file size limitation.
namely 2^32 * PAGESIZE
an ia32 system with a 4k page
limit: 16384 gig.
16k page
limit; 65536 gig

>
> max partition size      2tb (512b page size)    ?

True for all FS on linux right now, it's a block device limit.



>
>
> in advance, thanks!

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Russell Cattelan
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