I am not aware of any modern/non-historic filesystem[2] that can't do large files with ease. Anyone know of anything to worry about on that front?
There is some trouble in the ambiguity of what we mean by "modern" and "large files". There are still a large number of users of ext4 where the max file size is 16TB. Switching to a single large file per relation would effectively cut the max table size in half for those users. How would a user with say a 20TB table running on ext4 be impacted by this change?