[Lustre-discuss] 8T Limit

Johann Lombardi johann at sun.com
Tue Jan 26 13:30:24 PST 2010


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:30:32PM +0100, Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
> Why is there a 16TiB limit? Ext4 has no such limit (except for 16TiB _file_
> size).

Because we have only tested & validated up to 16TB. You are of course free to
try with bigger device (use the force_over_16tb mount option), but at your own
risk.

Johann



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