From: Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@ifa.hawaii.edu>
Subject: Re: ext4 volume > 16TB possible?
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:05:04 -1000
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OK - I am happy to test when this feature is merged.

Thanks,

-J

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On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 09:20:01AM -0500, Jose R. Santos wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 11:02:37 -1000
> Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@ifa.hawaii.edu> wrote:
>=20
> > Hi Folks,
> >=20
> > 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> -JRS

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