On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 13:49 +0100, T. Horsnell wrote: > 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 AFAIR 2.6 file size limit is 2TB. Work is being done (ext4) to raise this limit. Gilboa
