On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 08:06, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > Reiser 3.5 and 3.6 can handle up to 17.6 Terrabyte in a single > filesystem. (check www.namesys.com) > Practically speaking this is also the maximum file size, which is > logical given the partition size. > > So it shouldn't be reiser... maybe the drive is malfunctioning, or it is > not supported by your BIOS (that large). This used to be the case with > 2-4 GB drivers in 486's or early pentiums. The manufacturers often get > arround this by installing some low-level driver. Unfortunately these > are often incompatible with *NIX. >
I've always been under the impression that Linux unloads the BIOS from memory and then supports disk activity itself. I've used large disks (10G) in old computers (P75) successfully by not configuring the disk in the BIOS at all. > Maybe you can try JFS, XFS or EXT3 to check? > > Kind regards > > Guy > > > > Perhaps a dumb question, but what is the maximum partition size you can make a > > linux ext2, or reisfer or any other linux partition? The reason I ask, is I > > just purchased a 180gb IDE drive and Reiser is choking. I've done a cursory > > search on the internet and not seeing anything. > -- > Guy Van Sanden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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