Re: Maximum file size
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.
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