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From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org>
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Subject: Re: Stability of ReiserFS onj Kernel 2.4.x (sp. 2.4.[56]{-ac*}
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 volodya@mindspring.com wrote:

>> I am upgrading to a new 36GB HD, and intend to split it into 3 pieces:
>> one 7GB vfat, one ~28GB linux data (reiser or ext2), and 1GB swap.
>>
>> I need to know if I can trust ReiserFS, as I do believe that I do want
>> ReiserFS.
>
>Which is a good point - can ext2 handle more than 4gig partitions ? I have
>some vague ideas that it doesn't

Very vague indeed.  ;o)


/dev/md1 on /mnt/md1 type ext2 (rw,nosuid)

$ df /dev/md1
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1             210042576 197033208   2339736  99% /mnt/md1

That is mission critical 210Gb ext2 over software RAID.


>(and that it does not handle files more than 2gig long).

pts/0 mharris@devel:~$ ls -o bigfile.dat
-rw-rw----    1 mharris  6634951680 Jul 16 00:37 bigfile.dat


>I am reasonable sure that ReiserFS is better in this
>regard though I am not certain about this either.

That is a contradition.  ;o)  "Reasonably sure" and "certain" are
pretty close in meaning IMHO.  I don't see how you can be
uncertain, but reasonably sure...  ;o)


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