I'm trying to find the maximum size of an ext3 filesystem and the maximum size of a file within that system. linux-2.6.17/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt says: Filesystem block size: 1kB 2kB 4kB 8kB File size limit: 16GB 256GB 2048GB 2048GB Filesystem size limit: 2047GB 8192GB 16384GB 32768GB There is a 2.4 kernel limit of 2048GB for a single block device, so no filesystem larger than that can be created at this time. There is also an upper limit on the block size imposed by the page size of the kernel, so 8kB blocks are only allowed on Alpha systems (and other architectures which support larger pages). Does anyone know if the '2.4 kernel limit of 2048GB' has been raised in the 2.6 kernels? Has anyone successfully built an ext2/3 > 2TeraBytes? If so, what kernel are you using and what did you use to label the device? fdisk/sfdisk/parted/... Cheers, Terry.
