From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Joel Beach <joelbeach@optushome.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maximum (efficient) partition sizes for various filesystem types...
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 12:09:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BFE1245.1030300@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001401c170d3$ea40cc10$1e50a8c0@kinslayer> <E165lCN-00061N-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20011122203000.B11821@redhat.com>
Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>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
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I bet the origin is the time it takes to run fsck. If so, run any
journaling filesystem and you'll be okay. We have 2 terabyte systems
out there, I bet ext3 does also.
hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-23 9:12 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
2001-11-23 9:09 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
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2001-11-20 19:24 Dan Merillat
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