Re: VFS/ext2fs - large files on the Alpha (fails for 17GB+)

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:53:33 -0400 (EWT)

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Matti Aarnio wrote:

> 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....

Cheers,
Alex

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