Re: [PATCH] ext3: Extends blocksize up to pagesize

[John Stoffel]

Takashi> As a disk tends to get large, a disk storage has had a
Takashi> capacity to supply multi-TB.  But now, ext3 can't support
Takashi> more than 8TB filesystem when blocksize is 4KB.  That's why I
Takashi> think ext3 needs to be more than 8TB.

Man, I don't want to even think about doing an FSCK on an 8TB
filesystem running ext[23] at all.  

In that size range, you really need a filesystem which doesn't need an
FSCK at all.  Not sure what the real answer is though...

John
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