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From: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:07:34
Message-Id: 51ab5153.cdaeWPWIbd5YtZhM%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits by Alan Mackenzie
1 Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote:
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3 > The wikipedia page on Ext3 says that with a 1kB blocksize, the maximum
4 > file size is 16GB, but with a 2kB blocksize it's 256GB. Could it be
5 > you've somehow actually got a 1kB blocksize on the partition?
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7 Where does such a strange limitation come from?
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9 Ext* started as a UFS "clone" and UFS filesize is limited to 2**63 while
10 UFS filesystem size is limited to 1 TB.
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12 That is much more than you claim for Ext3
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14 Jörg
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Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>