On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:28:48AM -0600, Jay Kline wrote: > You are correct. If you follow any of the XFS archive stuff, they say the > addressing limitation in Linux is only (!!!) 2^64 TB or something. For > todays technology, you shouldnt have to worry about it. Er, that doesn't sound quite right. Linux has a block device addressing limit of 2 TB because it uses 32-bit (probably signed) addresses. There isn't anything the file systems can do to get around this. XFS supports files as large as 2^63 and file systems much larger than that. Nate