RE: [TCLUG:1853] Max physical size of drive?

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

from "Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem"
http://www.redhat.com:8080/HyperNews/get/fs/ext2intro.html

Max FS size:    4TB
Max file size:  2GB
Max file name:  255c

Ext2 will be able to handle it.. just need to find out if fdisk will like it

On 20-Oct-98 Robert A. Hayden wrote:
> I am currently building a system that will have a RAID subsystem
> controlled by a standalone os-independent RAID controller.  As part of
> this, I will have a 27 or 36 GB RAID5 disk (5 or 6 10,000 RPM 9GB disks).
> 
> Are there are limitations on the side of a SCSI disk that Linux can
> handle? Can it handle something that might be reported as being that big? 
> 
> (obviously, I'll be partitioning the disk, but I just don't want to have
> an overall disk that's too big). 
> 
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Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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