Re: Stability of ReiserFS onj Kernel 2.4.x (sp. 2.4.[56]{-ac*}

volodya
2001-07-16T00:48:53Z

On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:

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> On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 volodya@mindspring.com wrote:
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> > Which is a good point - can ext2 handle more than 4gig partitions ? I have
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> It can.
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> > some vague ideas that it doesn't (and that it does not handle files more
> > than 2gig long).
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> It does.
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Umm that is very interesting - I was rather sure there were some problems
a while ago (2.2.x ?). Is there anything special necessary to use large
files ? Because I tried to create a 3+gig file and now I cannot ls or rm
it. (More details: the file was created using dd from block device (tried
to backup a smaller ext2 partition), ls and rm say "Value too large for
defined data type" and I upgraded everything mentioned in Documentation/Changes).

Vladimir Dergachev

PS Yep, the new limits are clearly documented in
Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt - sorry for bothering anyone..