2**31-1 blocks question

Stephen Samuel samuel at bcgreen.com
Wed May 12 02:31:07 UTC 2010


It seems to me that Mag is running a somewhat older system. That would
explain the problems
with expanding ext3 past 8TB.  Perhaps this would be a good excuse to plan
an upgrade to the OS, and maybe also the hardware.

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com> wrote:

> Mag Gam wrote:
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Basically, I should avoid creating such a large filesystems.
>
> ... on ext3.  Other filesystems can handle this better; ext4 should
> be quite useable up to 16T, others can go larger still.
>
> -Eric
>
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