brent saner via plug on 14 Nov 2025 00:59:23 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] XFS limits

On Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 13:57 Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
It turns out that the very next file bumps the total size above 4
TB. Regardless of the cause, it's clear that the limit exists for me.

Which is fine. I already knew going in that I was going to have to
transfer the files in multiple batches. Whether I split at 4 TB or 5
TB doesn't matter. I made a small tweak to my script to generate
directories of symlinks, and I'm good to go.

Walt

Catching up on my reading, but XFS max size for files is 8EiB and max FS size is 1 PiB.

Yes, I realize how insane that sounds (think sparse files, for instance).

But both are well, well above the 4 TB you're hitting. Certainly seems to be administrative, or you're hitting a weird case where e.g. the filesystem is larger than the underlying physical media.
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