Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: fsck out of memory

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:04:17PM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

The nominal limit on device/filesystem size looks to be 16TB on a 32-bit
platform, but there are dozens of sign truncation errors throughout the
VFS and block layers that are unlikely to get fixed.  Hence, 8TB it is.

and even this isn't a hard limit.  if we actually make PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
larger, then we can grow devices by the same factor.  of course, everybody
should switch to 64-bit machines.

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