Re: >31 bit filesystems

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Fri, 2 Aug 1996 01:40:38 +0200


Mark Lehrer:

: I am interested in making a large local ext2fs filesystem
: of at the very least 4 gigs.

: does linux' filesystem handle this? what is the
: theoretical limit?

Per file: 2 GB minus 1 block.
Per filesystem: opinions differ, but 2 TB is an upper bound,
(and I think 1 TB is possible).