linux-ext4 - Re: filesystems bigger than 16 TB?

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:40:23 +1000
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@...g.org>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: filesystems bigger than 16 TB?

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:35:59PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> 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?

Regardless of the filesystem or the feature, if it is not in
officially released packages, do you really want to risk your
production data on an experimental filesystem/feature?

> 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.

On a 2.6.32 kernel, I'd strongly recommend using XFS for >16TB
filesystems....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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