On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 04:03:38PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> What's the current limit for ext2 filesystems, and what happens if a users
> creates a larger disk? I think we should document the current limits, and
> refuse to mount larger disks. I guess the current limit is somewhere around
> 1000 GB (512*INT_MAX)?
The limit is more ~2TB with 1K blocks and ~8TB with 4K blocks.
>
> I'm posting this question because I've already seen a message that someone
> uses a 500 GB ext2 fs, and because (IIRC) certain versions of the Norton
> Commander silently corrupted disks > 2GB on the Macintosh when Apple removed
> the 2 GB limit a few years ago.
Some version of fsck compiled with the wrong llseek() did that too.
> The Linux filesystems/utilities [kernel, fsck,...] should avoid similar
> problems.
I think it is not a problem currently, because both 2TB and 8TB would
take several days of fsck, which makes them impractical.
-Andi
