From: Justin Piszcz Subject: Re: Is EXT4 the right FS for > 16TB? Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:14:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <4D0E3435.30104@van-ness.com> <4D0E3A63.606@sandeen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Sandon Van Ness , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Alan Piszcz To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from lucidpixels.com ([75.144.35.66]:49331 "EHLO lucidpixels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932396Ab0LSTOO (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:14:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4D0E3A63.606@sandeen.net> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. Justin.