On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 11:11, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> >> In order for xfs to function beyond the 2 Tbyte limit, all we need
> >> to do is enable large filesystem support again in XFS. This is a
> >> one character change. In xfs_types.h define XFS_BIG_FILESYSTEMS to
> >> 1 instead of zero.
>
> Assuming this is done before the 2.6.x kernels are released, what will the
> max. 2.6.x XFS-Linux filesystem be?
>
It becomes a function of pagesize and the size of the page->index field,
metadata is cached in an address space, so the size of a filesystem is
governed by the amount of space which can fit in one of these.
So page index is a long, on ia32 we have 4K pages, I think this gets
us to 16 Tbytes.
Steve
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