Re: VFS/ext2fs - large files on the Alpha (fails for 17GB+)
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
20 Aug 1998 05:08:25 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9808192147430.1186-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk>
By author: Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > and your maximum filesize goes up by function of:
> > (blocksize/4)^3*blocksize ( plus epsilon from ^2 term..)
> >
> > 1k: 16 GB
> > 2k: 262 GB
> > 4k: 4096 GB
> > 8k: 70 TB
> >
> > Propably you will be happy with 2k block size ;-)
>
> Does that means we *can* have a disk partition (or a RAID system) with a
> max. size of 70TB with ext2fs on Intel platforms with a block size of 8192
> bytes? If so, will that be enough to satisfy one's lust for ever expanding
> disk space....
>
Not on Intel platforms. We were talking about 64-bit architectures.
-hpa
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