On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Tom Sightler wrote:

> Any information or hints out there?  If ext4 still has a 16TB limit then

See 
https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Bigger_File_System_and_File_Sizes

The ext4 filesystem itself has 48-bit block addressing but the e2fsprogs 
does not => Unfortunately there still is a 16 TB filesystem limit.

I've verified this myself with 5.4 by trying to create a 24 TB filesystem. 
This did not work but creating a 16 TB filesystem did.

Regarding ext4: Maybe you're also interested in this ext4 sync bug on 
large memory systems present in both 5.4 and 5.5: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572930

XFS has its problems on RHEL, too. See e.g. 
http://www.bofh-hunter.com/2009/09/04/rhel-5-4-and-xfs/

Karsten

PS: IMHO the by far the best working solution for huge filesystems is ZFS 
which unfortunately is not available for the Linux kernel... btrfs? We'll 
see.

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