Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

[Alex Tomas]

>>>>> Linus Torvalds (LT) writes:

 LT> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
 LT> Btw, where did that 2TB limit number come from? Afaik, it should be 16TB 
 LT> for a 4kB filesystem, no?

2TB => 16K group descriptors * 8 (sizeof(void*) on 64bit arch) => 128K -- slab limit

we have a fix for this as well.

thanks, Alex
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