Matt is right about largefile4. I couldn't find it yesterday, but there's a good short doc on this at:
http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Zimmerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 8:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] which version of reiserfs? > > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:11:13AM -0400, Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) wrote: > > > 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. > > The 'largefile4' option is a only tuning parameter which can > be used to gain > space efficiency on a filesystem which whose average file size will be > large. > > It is NOT necessary in order to allow the creation of files > larger than 2GB, > and will cause many headaches if used inappropriately, since > with a normal > file size distribution, the filesystem will run out of inodes > very quickly. > ext2 and ext3 support large files "out of the box" given appropriate > userland support (which will be found in any modern Linux > distribution). > > -- > - mdz >
