Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 15:30:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 15:30:41 -0500 Received: from chunnel.redhat.com ([199.183.24.220]:17647 "EHLO sisko.scot.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 15:30:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 20:30:00 +0000 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" To: Alan Cox Cc: Joel Beach , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Maximum (efficient) partition sizes for various filesystem types... Message-ID: <20011122203000.B11821@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <001401c170d3$ea40cc10$1e50a8c0@kinslayer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 09:58:43AM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 09:58:43AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > For instance, the Debian guide says that, due to Ext2 efficiency, partitions > > greater than 6-7GB shouldn't be created. Is this true for Ext3/ReiserFS. > > I've run several 45-200Gb ext2 and ext3 partitions with no problem. I'm not > sure what the origin of the Debian guide comemnt is but I've never heard > it from an ext2 developer The largest filesystem I use with ext3 at the moment is 40GB, and it is 98% full and is used *constantly* (it contains my main build trees). I'm not sure where the 6-7GB limit idea comes from but I've got very few filesystems smaller than that, and they are still all ext3. Cheers, Stephen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/