Is there a partiton size limit?

[Norberto Bensa]

I would assume that 64bit kernels are LBS and LFS by default but I may be wrong.

On 3/16/09, don fisher <hdf3 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> Norberto Bensa wrote:
>>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Norberto Bensa <nbensa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> If you're using server kernels, then I have no idea.
>>> Oh. I've found this:
>>>
>>> http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse91/suselinux-adminguide/html/apas04.html
>>>
>>> So you need to tell mkfs.ext to use 8KB blocks
>>
>> As that page says, 8KB blocks are only available on Alpha, which I doubt
>> Don has.
>>
>>> mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 should give you a 16TB filesystem
>>
>> 4096 bytes is 4 KB. Luckily, that is sufficient for a 10 TB filesystem
>> (max of 16 TB with that option).
>>
>> Matt Flaschen
>>
>
> The kernel does not have LBD  (support for large block devices) or LSF
> (support for large single files) enabled. Examination of the configure
> dependencies shows they are both dependent on !64BIT. My machine is
> 64BIT, so these are available as configurable options.
>
> In the past, under Fedora, these both were enable and my option was Y. I
> do not know if LBD and LSF are patches to let 32BIT machines handle
> large files or a bug in the kernel. The same definition exists in the
> latest at kernel.org.
>
> I have been doing science for awhile, so have forgotten a lot of the
> details. And the switch from Fedora to Ubuntu has complicated the
> situation a bit. I do not remember how the limits on file system size
> are reflected in the work size.
>
> Don
>
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