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Re: Maximum file size



On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 04:20, Andrew Ingram wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 16:58, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> > On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 02:36:23PM +0100, Andrew Ingram wrote:
> > > I was running a video capture program yesterday on my Debian box. I was
> > > capturing to a FAT32 partition and after a while, I came across the 2GB
> > > single file limit that FAT32 has. I was using the windows partition
> > > since it had the most amount of free space, but free space is no good if
> > > it can't handle the file sizes!
> > > 
> > > What I was wondering was, what are the maximum file sizes of ext2, ext3
> > > and Reiser. Are any of these formats particularly good for video capture
> > > (i.e. don't get really fragmented by having ~4GB files added and removed
> > > all the time). I'm thinking of building a PVR type machine and all this
> > > information would be very useful to me.
> > 
> > ext2/3 : 16TB
> > reiserFS : 1EB (exabyte)
> > JFS : 16TB on 32 bit, 4PB (petabyte) on 64 bit
> > XFS : 8TB
> 
> 
> Holy COW! I think that will do, lol. Now I just have to find a 4
> petabyte harddrive :-)
> 
> Thanks for the answers Frank.

Yeah, but how long will it take to format? ;)
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