Comments on: What is Maximum Partition size supported by Linux?

By: KIRAN

KIRAN — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:27:11 +0000

How to Format the 20 TB LUN in RHEL 5.4 server 32 bit?

By: Jose

Jose — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:01:21 +0000

There’s incorrect info in this article with regards to ReiserFS:

It *does* support ACLs and has supported them for a long while.

The recovery time after a crash is actually dependent on the severity of the crash, for most crashes where a simple rollback is performed, the recovery time is actually way faster than either ext2 or ext3 (a few seconds on 100′s gigabyte-sized partitions). On rare occasions where the metadata is damaged and a tree-rebuild must be performed, the recovery time is similar to ext2-3. When there’s bigger damage it can take a lot of time, but then you’d better recover from backup.

By: David Meyer

David Meyer — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:56:02 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I knew that Linux had a larger partion size than Windows, but this really lays it out nicely. I also looked at XFS and am asking our development team to look at it as well for our product line.

By: Greg Whynott

Greg Whynott — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:30:16 +0000

You tell em’ Joshua.

I’m amazed by how few of todays “unix” admins do not know about XFS or who SGI was/is… The only bad one can say about XFS is it’s slow unlinking.. but who deletes stuff now a days anyway?

-g

By: Joshua Schmidlkofer

Joshua Schmidlkofer — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 04:02:19 +0000

This is a little short sighted – on Linux you can have XFS filesystems at least a Petabyte in size. FS itself supports up to 9 exabytes ,which are all SIGNIFICANTLY larger than 16 Terabytes.

It is included in the kernel, and has been since at least 2001. http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs