Re: [Mldonkey-users] Re: 2GB limit sumup

[Lionel Bouton]

spiralvoice wrote the following on 11/22/2003 07:04 PM :

> On Sa 22 Nov 2003 06:36:06p Chaosmedia Dev. wrote:
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> > the filesystem used on my mldonkey partition is ext2 should i use
> > another filesustem to support >2G files ?
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> Hi,
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> definitely yes, ext3 or Reiser for example.
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>  

ext3 adds journaling to ext2, not 2G+ file support. This is already 
supported in the 2.4 kernels's ext2 implementation. The ext2 2G limit 
was removed with the release of the 2.4 kernels.

If you don't mind the slight performance penalty, you can use tune2fs to 
add a journal to an existing ext2 filesystem. You can then change the 
fstab entry to make it mount as an ext3 fs (say goodbye to the 
occasional long e2fsck runs)....

Reiserfs never had the 2G limit in mainstream kernels as it was released 
with 2.4.

Regards,

LB