I went through this a couple of months ago. Here's what I found: I ran tests on both SLES7 with Reiser, and SLES8 with EXT3. I was able to create files larger than 2 gb. on both, with one caveat mentioned below.
SLES7/Reiser -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3974090752 May 27 13:12 bigfile1 SLES8/EXT3 (formatted with -T largefile4) -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5100758784 May 27 13:01 bigfile The caveat is that with EXT2 or EXT3, you have to specify "-T largefile4" or the filesystem is created with 1k/inode. "largefile4" creates 4MB/inode, which wastes considerable space on small files, but allows files much larger than 2 gb. There's one more gotcha: Some old packages compiled against old versions of the libraries (libc5 and glibc 2.1) may either not have the 64-bit file handling API's, or may have broken ones. The packages I looked at on both SLES7 and SLES8 appear to be current, but I can't vouch for vendor products. One particular problem was the version of ssh that ships with SLES7. Scp has the large-file-support deliberately disabled because of problems with other (non-Linux) operating systems. The version shipped with SLES8 fixes this, and WILL compile under SLES7, but the RPM won't rebuild there without major surgery, due to other issues. > -----Original Message----- > From: Little, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 11:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] which version of reiserfs? > > > I'm looking for the maximum file size on SLES 7. according to > www.namesys.com, 3.5 has a limit of 2^32-1 bytes and 3.6 has > a limit of > 2^60-1 bytes. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 9:55 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: which version of reiserfs? > > > > > > Chris, > > > > reiserfs-3.x.0k_pre8-15.s390.rpm > > > > > > Mark Post > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Little, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:52 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: which version of reiserfs? > > > > > > which version of reiserfs ships with SLES7? > > > > +------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------- > > + > > | Chris Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > | > > | Ok Dept of Human Services Data Services Division > > (405)522-1306 | > > +------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------- > > + > > >
