[Zope] Data.fs 2GB problem ...

[Garry Steedman]

Bill,

why XFS?

cheers,

garry

On 17 Oct 2001, at 17:52, Bill Anderson wrote:

Subject:        	RE: [Zope] Data.fs 2GB problem ...
From:           	Bill Anderson <bill@libc.org>
To:             	zope@zope.org
Date sent:      	17 Oct 2001 17:52:12 -0600

> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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