Big filesystems

Jepri jepri at webone.com.au
Fri Jan 10 19:53:05 EST 2003


On 2003.01.10 19:30 Michael James wrote:
> What's the limit on Linux filesystems?
> 
> I've got 2 RAIDs with ~420Gig in each
> 
> I was planning to LVM them into a single container
>  and slice them back into home space (backed up)
>  and database space (un-backed up as I can re-load them off the net).
> 
> But LVM spat the dummy saying 200Gig was the limit,
>  a single 400 Gig slice was out, let alone joining 2.
> 
> So what's the limit?

2Tb, under kernel 2.5

http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/~peterc/lfs.html

Time to upgrade...



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