large files under RedHat 7.2

[Thomas Weber]

Am Freitag, 22. Februar 2002 19:43 schrieben Sie:
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> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 19:07:18 +0100 (CET) Elmar Gerwalin wrote:
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> Elmar> - use ext2 fs (not reiserfs) on that filesystem !
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> Why is that? reiserfs-3.6 supports 17.6 TB files:
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We are using SuSE 7.2 and it formats partitions with reiserfs-3.5. Our first 
tests with large files were some times ago. So we are using ext2 since this 
time.

That's the reason for his statement and reiserfs-3.6 should work.

mfg
Thomas.


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