From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:12:03 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] A start at large file and filesystem support Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:25:21 +1000, peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au said: Peter> I've been looking at getting large file system support to Peter> work properly (there's currently a 1TB or 2TB limit on the Peter> size of a block device in 2.5.9, depending on how you use Peter> it). Peter> This patch enables large filesystems, and discs bigger than Peter> 2TB. Only the EFI GUID partitioning scheme can be used with Peter> enormous discs, as all the others are constrained by 32-bit Peter> number of cylinders. Peter> Next step is to audit the filesystems that claim to be able Peter> to support large filesystems (ext2 may support up to 32TB; Peter> reiserfs version 4, jfs and xfs much more) and make sure that Peter> they can. Good work! Since this really doesn't touch any ia64 files: will you work directly with the respective maintainers to get this into the official 2.5 tree? Peter> The patch is a bit big for inclusion in this email. You can Peter> get it from Peter> http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/patches/2.5.9-largefile-patch.txt.bz2 Peter> (which also includes the changes David Mosberger put up as Peter> the diffs from 2.5.8) Peter> If you're bitkeeper-enabled, you can pull the patch from Peter> bk://gelato.unsw.edu.au:2022 Not sure how others feel about this, but I for one still like to get diff -u-style patches. It's just so much faster to get a quick idea of what the patch does. Thanks, --david