> --> Just for the record, can nybody tell me whats the maximum
> amount of HDD, FileSystem space & RAM that LINUX can support.
Rather though to answer:
NTFS can support 16 Exabytes (as mega->giga->tera->exa->peta->yotta->zeta)
in a single volume. The largest file can be som 4 exabytes.
However the IDE driver does not support that much as yet.
In linux -- the ext2 filesystem uses inodes. So you have an inode (I dont
remember the size) of say 1024 bytes or 1k. now we can store a complete file
in an inode. BUT we are limiting the the largest file size as 1k. then we
have indirection -> so each inode contains only pointers to other inodes ...
AFAIK ext2 fs has 3 levels of indirection. No idea what the largest file
size is or the max number of inodes we can store ....
Think the 4GB is the limit per file. and 16 EB is the limit on a single
mount point...
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