Kernel 2.6, > 2TB block devices

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Tue Apr 13 07:35:36 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 02:43, Jesse Keating wrote:
> With the 2.6 kernel (on a FC1 install) I was able to create a software 
> raid array that exceeded 2TB.  This is cool, we've been waiting a long 
> time for this.  Now the question is asked, what are the new upper 
> limits for block devices, software raid volumes, and filesystems 
> themselves?

on x86 it's 16Tb for block devices (including soft raid); filesystems; I
think ext3 stops at 8Tb but I don't think anyone @ RH ever tried that
big.
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