On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 04:08:13PM -0400, willy@thepuffingroup.com wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 02:52:41PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
[What is maximum EXT2 filesystem size ?]
> > Yes. I believe it is limited to about 2 TB (yes, TERAbyte).
>
> hmm.. it's limited by the triple-indirect block.
No. That is maximum FILE size, not FILESYSTEM.
In theory the EXT2 filesystem max size is 4G * blocksize.
( 4 * 10^9 * 4 * 10^3 = 16 * 10^12 = 16 TB for 4k blocks. )
Practicalities begin to hit at various places:
Some block device drivers support only up to 2G * 512 bytes
(I recall SCSI at least was one of these) = 1 TB.
/Matti Aarnio
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