Big Content Access Performance Challenge

Question

Partitioning solution: GPT
+ Window 8.1 is capable to process 64-bit GPT partitions - even those created by parted-program under Linux OS
+ big disks available with full capacity
Formatting solution (at the time being):
1) Window 8.1: NTFS
   + works also under Linux with ntfs-3g installed
   - missing ext4 features such as journaling missing
2) Linux: EXT4 with mkfs.ext4
   + ext4 features such as journaling
Challenge: big data performance is zero with Windows 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation at the moment
Problem 1: big partitions (>2TB): not available!
Problem 2: big files (> 2TB): no access !
Problem 3: big hard disks ( > 2TB): no access!
Notes:
a) 64-bit Linux OS was able to a) create b) access c) operate with ok performance big (>2TB) content/data/files in >4TB disks
b)  " ** not accessible **"  message to be considered because content IS accessible once a 64-bit software is installed 
c)  " ** the volume does not contain a recognized file system ** message should rather be something like
           "sorry, system can not recognize file system, please install/get .... solution"
d) 32-bit system should NOT offer format as an option for with 64-bit big data !
e) NTFS- format should not be offered for big > 2TB data by 32-bit software!
f) it's hard for user to know whether problems are due to 32-bit programs when 32-bit programs itself don't
   recognize the fact that they are processing big data - this challenge is the same to other 32/64-bit hybrid OS systems  
Question: what is the add-on software and where to download to get access to EXT4 disks used by 64-bit OS ?

Answer 1

Thanks for your advice!
More detailed info:
- file size example 3.3TB <=> is 64-bit
- partition size example: 4TB <=> is 64-bit
- hard disk example: 4 TB hd used for enterpise big data apps <=> is 64-bit
- partioned by 64-bit parted software in enterpise Linux
- formatted by 64-bit mkfs.ext4 in enterpise Linux
  where
  - ext4 is fourth extended filesystem is a journaling file system for Linux
  - can support volumes with sizes up to 1 exbibyte (EiB) and files with sizes up to 16 tebibytes (TiB).[
Goal: to explore Windows 8.1 Enteprise Evaluation performance with big data using big data content created by other 64-bit Linux
Questions:
1) do I need to install something to make Windows 8.1 Enteprise Evaluation handle properly big data ?
2) what software does Microsoft recommends for Ext4 ?
3) will the final Windows 8.1 Enteprise Evaluation embed Ext4 ?
4) which tools and apps does Microsoft recommend
   a) to read ext4 format big data for writing it to different hard disk created by Win 8.1 with GPT ?
      - goal is to use 64-bit Linux big data in Windows 8.1 Enteprise Evaluation
   b) to read from hard disk created by Win 8.1 with GPT and to write to ext4 format disk ?
      - goal is to use Windows 8.1 Enteprise Evaluation big data in 64-bit Linux
5) why did Microsoft diskpart give NTFS as only formatting option for big volumes:
> diskpart <-- in command mode
DISKPART > LIST VOLUME
SELECT VOLUME 17 <-- one of volumes
FILESYSTEMS --> Current File System
Type: RAW <-- in Linux system this is EXT4
File Systems supported for formatting: NTFS <--- *** only NTFS where max file size < 2TB***