On Wednesday 09 October 2002 16:16, Steve Best wrote: > 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).
nope. 2TB is the maximum file- and block device size, as the maximum number of sectors is 2^32 and a sector is 512 bytes large roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester ProntoTV AS - http://www.pronto.tv/ Tel: +47 9801 3356 Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows. _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion
