Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 01:28:25 -0800
From: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
To: Dan Stromberg <strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: huge filesystems
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On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:41:37AM -0500, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > What about the "LBD" patches - what limits are involved there, and have
> > they been rolled into a Linus kernel, or one or more vendor kernels?
> 
> These are part of stock 2.6 kernels.  The caveat here is that there have
> been some problems reported (with ext3 at least) for filesystems > 2TB
> so I don't think it has really been tested very much.

FWIW Red Hat appears to officially support 8TB ext3 filesystems on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4:

"Ext3 scalability: Dynamic file system expansion and file system sizes
up to 8TB are now supported."

http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/features/

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>
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