From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Joel Beach <joelbeach@optushome.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maximum (efficient) partition sizes for various filesystem types...
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 20:30:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011122203000.B11821@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001401c170d3$ea40cc10$1e50a8c0@kinslayer> <E165lCN-00061N-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E165lCN-00061N-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 09:58:43AM +0000
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-22 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-19 8:26 Maximum (efficient) partition sizes for various filesystem types Joel Beach
2001-11-19 9:58 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-19 10:22 ` Joel Beach
2001-11-19 23:56 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-22 20:30 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2001-11-23 9:09 ` Hans Reiser
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2001-11-20 19:24 Dan Merillat
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