> Date:    Sun, 8 Mar 2009 12:38:54 +0900
> From:    John Summerfield <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: my ongoing battle with large filesystems
> 
> Troy Dawson wrote:
>> John Summerfield wrote:
>> ...snip...
>>> My research doesn't confirm that you _can_ do what you want using ext2 
>>> or ext3. I will have a better grasp if you answer the questions I asked.
>>>
>> This isn't really answering Miles questions, but I thought it was good 
>> to know for the conversation, and sorta answers John's. question.
>>
>>  From RedHat's documentation on the limits of various things
>> http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/
>>
>> For RHEL 5 (and hense SL 5)
>>
>> **i386**
>> Max Filesize (ext3) - 2TB
>> Max Filesystem Size (ext3) - 8TB
>>
>> **x86_64**
>> Max Filesize (ext3) - 2TB
>> Max Filesystem Size (ext3) - 16TB
>>
>> Troy
> 
> The limits depend on the block size.

Any ideas limits for NFS ? Does it depend on blocksize ? client 
architecture (ie. 32/64 bit) ?

Thanks,
--Chris