linux-ext4 - filesystems bigger than 16 TB?

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:35:59 +0200
From:	Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@...g.org>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: filesystems bigger than 16 TB?

With mkfs.ext4 from 1.41.14, it is not possible to create a filesystem 
which is bigger than 16 TB:

mkfs.ext4: Size of device /dev/sdb too big to be expressed in 32 bits
	using a blocksize of 4096.

But I see it succeeds with the latest git version of e2fsprogs.

The question is: how reliable such a filesystem is?

On a system which is supposed to be reliable, perhaps I'll be better off 
with xfs for such large filesystems?

I'm using Debian Squeeze, which has a 2.6.32 kernel.

-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
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