From: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>
To: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
Cc: Takashi Sato <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp>,
ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: Extends blocksize up to pagesize
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:30:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43D49417.9060204@aitel.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17358.25398.943860.755559@smtp.charter.net>
John Stoffel wrote:
>Takashi> As a disk tends to get large, a disk storage has had a
>Takashi> capacity to supply multi-TB. But now, ext3 can't support
>Takashi> more than 8TB filesystem when blocksize is 4KB. That's why I
>Takashi> think ext3 needs to be more than 8TB.
>
>Man, I don't want to even think about doing an FSCK on an 8TB
>filesystem running ext[23] at all.
>
>In that size range, you really need a filesystem which doesn't need an
>FSCK at all. Not sure what the real answer is though...
>
>
An fs that allows consistency checking while in use, perhaps?
Then it doesn't matter if it takes days, for you can use the fs
in the meantime.
Helge Hafting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-23 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-18 13:06 Takashi Sato
2006-01-18 15:48 ` John Stoffel
2006-01-22 18:28 ` Theodore Ts'o
2006-01-23 5:43 ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2006-01-23 20:36 ` Folkert van Heusden
2006-01-23 8:30 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2006-01-18 18:52 ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2006-01-21 7:10 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-22 18:31 ` Theodore Ts'o
2006-01-23 5:38 ` Andreas Dilger
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