Cameron Bahar wrote:
>I need support for a single 12 TB filesystem on Linux. The documentation
>indicates that JFS supports a theoretical 4PB limit, but that other
>limitations (32 bit offsets) within limit prevent scaling to this large
>size.
>
>Can someone please tell me if I can use JFS to create a single 12TB
>filesystem under Linux?

On a 32-bit machine, the file size is limited to 16 TB.  (This is also
the maximum size of the volume.)  This is due to constraints in the
Linux kernel.  On a 64-bit machine, the file size can be as big as 4 PB
(2^52).

Steve




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