Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932465Ab0LSTau (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:30:50 -0500 Received: from 64-131-28-21.usfamily.net ([64.131.28.21]:60090 "EHLO mail.sandeen.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932424Ab0LSTat (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:30:49 -0500 Message-ID: <4D0E5D67.6060504@sandeen.net> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:30:47 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Piszcz CC: Sandon Van Ness , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Alan Piszcz Subject: Re: Is EXT4 the right FS for > 16TB? References: <4D0E3435.30104@van-ness.com> <4D0E3A63.606@sandeen.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1114 Lines: 40 On 12/19/10 1:14 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Eric Sandeen wrote: > >> On 12/19/10 10:53 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Wow, there were no updates though after Eric's last comment.. >>> Eric, have there been any improvements in the past 6 months? >>> >>> Or should one still steer clear from EXT4 > 16TB? >> >> There is still no released e2fsprogs which supports > 16T for >> ext4, but testing of the not-released bits is welcomed... >> Ted says a 16T-capable version is coming soon. There's still >> work to be done there, though. >> >> -Eric >> > > Thanks Eric for confirming. > > With 7 x 3TB HDD its now possible to breach 16TB (16.38TB) in RAID-5 so I > suppose more people may start asking about this. Agreed, 16T is not that much these days. As Ric said, XFS will handle it without problem, though. -Eric > Justin. > -- 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/