Hans Reiser wrote:
>
> Richard Sharpe wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was doing some testing of a 53GB reiserfs file system on a machine I am
> > building to see what the performance was like, and I stumbled across a
> > problem.
> >
> > If I try to create a file larger than 4,294,967,295 bytes (2^32-1), it
> > simply stops at that point and the copy command (cat, dd, whatever) hangs.
> > The system keeps going, just the command you are using hangs.
> >
> > This does not occur with an EXT2 file system, only a ReiserFS on RedHat 7.1
> > with Linux 2.4.2 ...
> >
> > I have also tried it with a smaller ReiserFS partition, like 18GB, but the
> > same results.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this?
> >
> > Regards
> > -------
> > Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.ethereal.com)
> > Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
> > Author, Special Edition, Using Samba
>
> this is bizarre, there is nothing in reiserfs that should cause this in the 2.4
> series, did you create a new fs from scratch under 2.4? I recommend that you
> use kernel 2.4.4, as 2.4.2 is unstable. Read our faq for the section about how
> you should update your libraries and file utils to avoid the 2gb limit, but....
> .
>
> yura, please advise him.
>
> Hans
Hello !
Yes, you are right, to work properly with large files (>2GB)
you need linux-2.4.x, reiserfs-3.6.x and 3.6 reiserfs format.
So, please check your reiserfs format and if it is 3.5 please
use "-o conv" mount option.
Here is page describing all reiserfs mount option as well :
http://www.namesys.com/manp.html
Thanks,
Yura.
