On Mar 12, 2007 16:22 +0100, Valerie Clement wrote: > Mingming Cao wrote: > >IBM has done some testing (dbench, fsstress, fsx, tiobench, iozone etc) > >on 10TB ext3, I think RedHat and BULL have done similar test on >8TB > >ext3 too. > > Is there not a problem of backward-compatibility with old kernels? > Doesn't we need to handle a new INCOMPAT flag in e2fsprogs and kernel > before allowing ext3 filesystems greater than 8T?
No, it really depends on the kernel. There were some bugs that caused problems with > 8TB because of signed 32-bit int problems, so it isn't really recommended to use > 8TB unless you know this is fixed in your kernel (and any older kernel you might have to downgrade to). Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
