From: Bill Anderson <bill@immosys.com>
Or ext2, or ext3, or reiserfs ...
Once again, it is not the FS that has the limitation, it was the 32bit VFS on Intel machines, NOT ext2!
Yes, I understand that -- that with a current version of ext2 or patches to it, it supports >2GB files. My point being, it looks like SuSe is the only flavor that really supports it. Redhat certainly does not from the normal installer. And the normal RH installer doesn't let you create other than ext2 partitions (though I believe there's a floppy patch to the installer to do ReiserFS?) You'd have to create a separate partition for your data.fs, and install the other file systems, at a later time, it looks like. Over my head.... For many of us, installing linux is by far the hardest part :)