From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Bernd Schubert <Bernd.Schubert@tc.pci.uni-heidelberg.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2 TB partition support
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:44:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031112034422.GH2014@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031112002811.GA18177@tc.pci.uni-heidelberg.de>
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:28:11AM +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 06:12:06PM -0800, Joseph Shamash wrote:
> > Hello Peter,
> >
> > Forgive another quick Q or two.
> >
> > What is the maximum partition size for a patched 2.4.x kernel,
> > and where are those patches?
> >
>
> Hello,
>
> Are 2TB possible with an unpatched 2.4.x 64bit-AMD64 kernel? The
> partion is supposed to be reiserfs. I read an about 2 years old
> discussion about this and Hans Reiser statet that the maximum size is
> about 2GB. Unfortunality I don't know what this 'about' depends on.
That would refer to the Reiserfs 3.5 format, which is limited to 2GB max
file sizes. If you use 2.4, and have never used a 2.2 reiserfs kernel, then
you probably have the 3.6 format that has a much larger limit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-12 3:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-10 21:17 Joseph Shamash
2003-11-10 23:56 ` Peter Chubb
2003-11-11 2:10 ` Joseph Shamash
2003-11-11 2:20 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-11-11 2:12 ` Joseph Shamash
2003-11-11 2:21 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-11-11 3:42 ` Peter Chubb
2003-11-11 4:03 ` Joseph Shamash
2003-11-11 5:30 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-11 21:21 ` Joseph Shamash
2003-11-11 23:58 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-12 22:54 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-11-11 2:39 ` Peter Chubb
2003-11-11 2:52 ` Joseph Shamash
2003-11-11 2:53 ` Neil Brown
2003-11-12 0:28 ` Bernd Schubert
2003-11-12 3:44 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2003-11-12 19:35 ` Peter Chubb
2003-11-14 17:14 ` Bernd Schubert
2003-11-14 17:43 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-11-12 0:01 Xose Vazquez Perez
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2003-11-12 0:45 ` Andi Kleen
2003-11-12 19:37 ` Peter Chubb
2003-11-12 22:26 ` Andi Kleen
2003-11-12 11:09 ` Hans Reiser
2003-11-12 23:45 ` Peter Chubb
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