On Monday 16 December 2002 10:40 am, Jack Coates wrote: > 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. > This is news to me. I knew NT and XP does that, but didn't realize that Linux did it too. I'll have to give that a spin.
> > 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]>
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