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oh I just read up on this last knight. Yes ext4 is old but it is used because it is still works quite well. btrfs, dis anyone say that as butfarts, can handle much larger partitions ext4 maxes out at a few tb while btfrs can get much larger. ZFS can handle a around a billion tb but it needs a lot more resources to to even start
Max filesystem size is 1 EiB = 1048576 TiB.
More than enough!
eh which ever value it is smaller then btfrs or zfs