[plug] Linux File Systems under Woody

Richard Meyer meyerri at au1.ibm.com
Thu Jan 30 16:22:37 WST 2003


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                      Craig Ringer                                                                                                   
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>> Reiser seems to have this limitation still. I used dd to write huge
files
>> to a 10GB filesystem, and it craoked after 2GB. Had to run the job in
>> steps. (dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/S390/file1)

>nope ; I use huge files in reiser all the time. Just did a test, a 4 gig
>file created quite happily.

>I wonder what went wrong on your tests?

Dunno, was under Reiser that came with SuSE 7.3, which is not *that* old.
I'll check again tonight with Mdk or RH, using RFS

RichardM




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