On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 11:19, sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:
I don't think that is the case under Linux with a 64-bit userspace. Someone on this list (Bill?) had indicated it worked to have large files on ext2 under 64 bit architectures.
Correct on both accounts.
Sadly, that excludes UltraSPARC, because its user-space is still 32 bit, but I guess this limitation doesn't exist on Alpha, Itanium, or PA-RISC, but you may still need a 2.4 kernel for Itanium if you are to use that as a platform.
Well, not all PA-RISC is running a 64 bit OS. I am not 100% sure, but I do believe that you can't have less than a 2.4.0 kernel on IA64. IIRC, support for that arch went into 2.4, and not 2.2. I could be wrong, it has been a while since I've run on an IA64.
Next year, my company is likely to migrate our ZEO Storage Servers to an intel architecture from Linux/Sparc, and will likely use ReiserFS at that time, since it has been in the mainsteam 2.4.1+ kernels, and is reported to be stable on IA32...
Personally, I'd recommend XFS over ReiserFS.