On Wednesday 09 October 2002 09:24, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > On Wednesday 09 October 2002 16:16, Steve Best wrote: > > 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
A sparse file could be as big as 16 TB on jfs. Sectors don't affect the file offset. The limitation here is the page cache. -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion
