Hi, Chris, Chris Withers wrote:
The system I'm working on is Debian 2.2 (potato) with a ReiserFS 3.5 partition on it. I'm assured that on this setup, I should be able to have files of up to 4GB in size, currently I get barfage at exactly 2GB :-(
Unfortunatly ReiserFS 3.5 seems to be unable to use Linux LFS :-( You should use ReiserFS 3.6 [From http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html ...] ReiserFS 3.5.x (not part of the kernel, separate patch) Does not support LFS ReiserFS 3.6.x (part of kernel 2.4.1 and newer) Full support for LFS if the new on disk format is used. This format is incompatible to the format used by 3.5.x (see below for some more details). [...] Note for ReiserFS Chris Mason wrote: Disks formatted with the current 2.2 code are called our 3.5 disk format. They will not support large files under any kernel (even the 2.4 code). But, you can mount a 3.5 disk format under the 2.4 kernel code, and use -o conv. This will turn on large file support for the old disks, but only new files will be allowed to grow past 2GB. Once you mount with -o conv, you can't mount under 2.2 any more. We are testing a back port of the LFS disk format to 2.2, it should be ready soon. It has the same -o conv mount option that our 2.4 code has, so all the same rules will apply. [eoq] hth, ta -------------------------------------------------------------------------- smartferret it-consulting Dipl.-Ing. Linzbichler KEG Dipl.-Ing. Takashi Veikko Linzbichler Tannhofweg 28/3 A-8044 Graz, Austria Tel.: 0316 / 39 89 40 -0 Fax: 0316 / 39 89 40 -20 Mobil: 0676 / 31 26 286 eMail: takashi.linzbichler@smartferret.com WWW: http://www.smartferret.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------