On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 11:38:18PM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
On 10/04/2011 05:30 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> XFS has been proven at this scale on Linux for a very long time, is all.
>>
>> the why rh do NOT support it in 32 bit? there're still system that
>> should have to run on 32 bit:-(
>
> 32-bit machines have a 32-bit index into the page cache; on x86, that limits
> us to 16T for XFS, as well. So 32-bit is really not that interesting for
> large filesystem use.
>
> If you need really scalable filesystems, I'd suggest a 64-bit machine.
i mean if you support xfs and think it's better then ext4 why not
support it on rhel 32bit?
This is a question you should direct through Red Hat's support
channels.
Rich.
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