Hello, Jörg. On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 04:06:11PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote:
> > The wikipedia page on Ext3 says that with a 1kB blocksize, the maximum > > file size is 16GB, but with a 2kB blocksize it's 256GB. Could it be > > you've somehow actually got a 1kB blocksize on the partition? > Where does such a strange limitation come from? Haven't a clue. I would have expected the maximum file size to be a number of blocks, which makes it seem strange that doubling the block size multiplies max file size by 16. > Ext* started as a UFS "clone" and UFS filesize is limited to 2**63 while > UFS filesystem size is limited to 1 TB. Just for ease of comparison, 16GB = 2**34 bytes = 2**24 1k blocks. 1TB = 2**40 bytes. > That is much more than you claim for Ext3 I'm not doing any claiming, since I'm not an expert on the subject. I was just drawing the OP's attention to something which might be useful. > Jörg -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
