Seth Vidal wrote:
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> My understanding is that the bigmem patches are FS patches not memory
> patches - they are inappropriately named perhaps.
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Bigmem is support for > 1G _RAM_. The reson it is in 2.2 and large file
support is not is that the latter breaks libc (and posix?) and the first
one is a pure kernel issue.
Now back to Jason's question:
I meant that you have two options if you insist on having RAID and large
file support in Linux _right now_:
1.) get 64bit hardware and use 2.2.13+raid0145
2.) get a hw-RAID controller and use 2.3.x, which supports >2G files,
you said.
If you don't want to go with any of that, you have the third option
3.) use another OS
If you want to stay true to Linux, you can invest some months of waiting
to gain access to options
4.) wait for Ingo et al. to make sw-RAID 0.90 stable on 2.3/2.4
5.) wait for >2G file support to be backported to 2.2,
both of which is more a matter of believe than of fact, as others have
pointed out. I personally think that raid-0.90 will make it into 2.4 and
do not think that >2G files will ever become part of 2.2.
Marc
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