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Re: FileSystem >2 Terabytes

To: Gabor Forgacs <gabor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: FileSystem >2 Terabytes
From: Nathan Straz <nstraz@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:54:09 -0600
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:48:21PM +0100, Gabor Forgacs wrote:
> Is it possible to use any filesystem under linux which is bigger than 2Tbytes.
> Is there any solution ?

There is no problem creating a filesystem larger than 2TB.  The problem
in Linux is addressing a block device of that size.  Peter Chubb is
working on large block devices for Linux.  It should be easy to find
patches for 2.4.x and 2.5.x in the linux-kernel archives.  

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Nate Straz                                              nstraz@xxxxxxx
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