Monday, April 6, 2009

Maximum On-Disk Sizes of the Filesystems

Filesystem File Size Limit Filesystem Size Limit
ext2 with 1 KiB blocksize 16448 MiB 2048 GiB (= 2 TiB)
(~ 16 GiB)

ext2 with 2 KiB blocksize 256 GiB 8192 GiB (= 8 TiB)

ext2 with 4 KiB blocksize 2048 GiB (= 2 TiB) 16384 GiB (= 16 TiB)

ext2 with 8 KiB blocksize (1) 65568 GiB (~ 64 TiB) 32768 GiB (= 32 TiB)

ReiserFS 3.5 (Linux 2.2) 4 GiB 16384 GiB (= 16 TiB)

ReiserFS 3.6 (Linux 2.4) 1 EiB 16384 GiB (= 16 TiB)

XFS 8 EiB 8 EiB

JFS with 512 Bytes blocksize 8 EiB 512 TiB

JFS with 4KiB blocksize 8 EiB 4 PiB

NFSv2 (Client side) 2 GiB 8 EiB

NFSv3 (Client side) 8 EiB 8 EiB


Reference
http://linuxreviews.org/sysadmin/filesystems/