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PostgreSQL 10 High Performance
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One of the topics discussed for each filesystem is how large a volume can you put on it. For most of them, that number is 16 TB, a shared artifact of using 32-bit numbers to represent filesystem information. Right now, it's quite easy to exceed 16 TB in a volume created with a moderately sized array of 1 TB or larger hard drives. This makes this number an increasingly problematic limit.
There are three levels of issue you can run into here:
The last of those is worth spending a moment on, since that problem is mostly independent of the filesystem-specific details of the first two.
Most PC hardware on the market, with the notable exception of Apple Intel macOS X systems, partition drives using the Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning...