[Beds] Maximum Partition Sizes - Kernel Limitation?

[Alan James]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:55:44PM +0100, Darren Parkinson wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Another quick question regarding maximum partition sizes on Linux. I've read 
> that ext2 has a maximum partition size of 4TB, but someone just called me to 
> ask a question regarding whether or not the kernel placed any additional 
> restrictions on this? He was under the impression that a 2.4 kernel put a 
> 1TB limit on this which was fixed in 2.6. Does anyone know this to be the 
> case? I've done a quick google and can't find too much about it so any help 
> greatly appreciated.

There was a limit of 2TB on block devices in 2.4. LVM was affected too. 2.6 
doesnt have this limit. I'm not sure where the limit is now. 

Reiserfs filesystems go up to 16TB so try reiser is you go bigger than 4TB.

Alan.