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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:30:15 +0100
From: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>
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To: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
CC: Takashi Sato <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp>, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: Extends blocksize up to pagesize
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John Stoffel wrote:

>Takashi> As a disk tends to get large, a disk storage has had a
>Takashi> capacity to supply multi-TB.  But now, ext3 can't support
>Takashi> more than 8TB filesystem when blocksize is 4KB.  That's why I
>Takashi> think ext3 needs to be more than 8TB.
>
>Man, I don't want to even think about doing an FSCK on an 8TB
>filesystem running ext[23] at all.  
>
>In that size range, you really need a filesystem which doesn't need an
>FSCK at all.  Not sure what the real answer is though...
>  
>
An fs that allows consistency checking while in use, perhaps?
Then it doesn't matter if it takes days, for you can use the fs
in the meantime.

Helge Hafting
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