From: "Jose R. Santos" Subject: Re: ext4 volume > 16TB possible? Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:20:01 -0500 Message-ID: <20080408092001.203605fd@gara.konoha.net> References: <20080407210237.GO23213@ifa.hawaii.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Joshua Hoblitt Return-path: Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:36782 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752472AbYDHOUP (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:20:15 -0400 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by e32.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m38EIH2J010426 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:18:17 -0400 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id m38EKFxV218576 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:20:15 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m38EKEVf018728 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:20:15 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20080407210237.GO23213@ifa.hawaii.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 11:02:37 -1000 Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Is there as of yet a means of creating a large ext4 filesystem? mke2fs > as of 1.40.8 is still limited to creating ext3 filesystems at 16TB. Support for 64-bit block number is not yet available on e2fsprogs. It is being worked on but other features currently have higher priority that this so its hard to say when it will be done. -JRS