Re: Ext2fs file sizes

From: Jakub Jelinek (jakub@redhat.com)
Date: Mon Jul 17 2000 - 11:02:28 EST


On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 12:08:34PM -0400, kernel@kvack.org wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Nigel Jacob wrote:
>
> > My understanding is that t ext2fs has a filesize limitation of
> > 2GB. Is this true?
>
> No. ext2 itself limits file sizes to ~4TB when using a 4KB blocksize. Of
> course on 32 bit platforms you're limited to a max 2TB filesystem size.

Actually, at the moment on all platforms you're limited to max 2TB block
device size.

        Jakub

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