128TB filesystem limit?

david at lang.hm david at lang.hm
Sat Mar 27 13:45:19 CDT 2010


On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Emmanuel Florac wrote:

> Le Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:15:42 -0700 (PDT) vous ?criviez:
>
>> is this just rounding error combined with the 1000=1k vs 1024=1k
>> marketing stuff, or is there some limit I am bumping into here.
>
> This isn't an xfs limit, I've set up several hundred big xfs FS for
> more than 5 years (13 to 76 TB) and never saw that. It must be a bug in
> df or elsewhere. What distribution is this? and architecture?

debian 5 on amd64.

at this point I'm fairly sure that it's just rounding error combined with 
the difference between 10^9 and 2^30 definitions of TB

David Lang




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