[CentOS] centos6 filesystem size limit

Sun Jan 2 21:45:48 UTC 2011
Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com>

I just read the rhel6 filesystem size limit.

http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/

It says 16TB limit for ext4 (same as ext3)?!?!  I thought ext4 was
supposed to support 1EB ( ~ 1 million TB) limit. That was one of the
main advantages of rhel6. After a little more digging all I found was
that the user space formatting tools (mkfs.ext4) only support 32bit
filesystems (not 48bits). I'm surprised about this, I thought people
would be waiting for >16TB support in rhel6. Does anyone know if this
is going to change in point releases of rhel/centos6?

Happy New Year

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Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada