Re: Sorry for the bother - Max File System Limit on Linux 2.6

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 03:36:15PM -0400, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
> Everyone,
> 
>   I'm really sorry to ask this on the list but I need
> a definitive answer. I was looking on the XFS website
> to find the maximum File System size for XFS with
> a 2.6 Linux kernel (2.6.10+). According to the XFS
> website it's 9 million TB but I thought there was a
> limitation in the kernel somewhere that limited it
> to 16 TB. Can someone help answer this?

16TB is the limit on 32bit platforms.  On 64bit platorms the theoretical
size is virtually unlimited, although you will run into various scalability
limits in the hundrets of terra bytes range.

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
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