Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 07:31:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 07:31:07 -0500 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.0.238]:30225 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 07:31:01 -0500 Message-ID: <3BE291F9.5050802@namesys.com> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 15:30:49 +0300 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zmwillow CC: linux-kernel-mail-list , "Vladimir V. Saveliev" Subject: Re: where the filesystem size limitation coms from? In-Reply-To: <3BE2B5F2.1040009@xteamlinux.com.cn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org zmwillow wrote: >Hi: >That is say: in 2.4.x, the max filesystem size of ext2 is 32T, and i >want know >what is the reiserfs(and others) max size ? and where the limitation >comes from(VFS layer)? >Maybe you can give some clue . >And the max file size now biger than 2G(is 16T), how reiserfs implement it? >Thanx a lot! >zmwillow > >Best regard > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > block numbers are a 32 bit int is the problem. sectors are also kept as a 32 bit int, but that is a layer below reiserfs. block numbers become 64 bit in reiser4, but not sure when rest of linux goes to 64 bit block numbers Hans - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/