Re: questions about http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/irix-linux.html

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

The point is that if/when Linux scales to those sizes of files, XFS is
ready.  Outside of the Linux limitation, the maximum size of an XFS
filesystem is something unbelievably huge!*  :)

-Eric

* ~18 Million terabytes, I believe.


On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 16:19, pac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>  In http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/irix-linux.html
>  it states: 
> 
> * Linux XFS filesystems are limited to 2 Terabytes in size due to 
>   limitations in the Linux block device I/O layers. 
> 
> * The maximum accessible file offset of a Linux XFS file is 16 Terabytes on 4K
>   page size and 64 Terabytes on 16K page size. 
> 
>  Question: if the max filesystem is 2T, what is the point of discussing a 16T
>  file offset? What did i miss?

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Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.