luxInteg wrote: > On Saturday 10 March 2012 11:13:44 Simon Geard wrote: >> Yes and no. Btrfs is a filesystem, but one which also provides LVM >> functionality, RAID, snapshots, subvolumes, etc. It's a very different >> beast from ext4 or reiserfs. > > > the linux raid filesystem (created with fdisk) is not useable for > large > disks such as 3 tbyte disks which will soon be standard. And EXT4 is > limited > to 16Tbytes. This is why BtrFS is important I read somewhere that fedora is > switching to BtrFS as default..
Yes, fdisk has a problem with large disks and parted is needed, but the util linux guys are working on it. ext4 is limited to 16T *for one file*. The fs can be 1E (1,000,000 TB). I don't think I'll hit that limit for a while. :) I do think it will be a while before disk greater that 2T drives are "standard", but they certainly are available. Some things will take a while to work out in a standard way -- like 4K sector sizes. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
