Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 20:30:00 +0000 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: Maximum (efficient) partition sizes for various filesystem types... |
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Hi,
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 09:58:43AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > For instance, the Debian guide says that, due to Ext2 efficiency, partitions > > greater than 6-7GB shouldn't be created. Is this true for Ext3/ReiserFS. > > I've run several 45-200Gb ext2 and ext3 partitions with no problem. I'm not > sure what the origin of the Debian guide comemnt is but I've never heard > it from an ext2 developer
The largest filesystem I use with ext3 at the moment is 40GB, and it is 98% full and is used *constantly* (it contains my main build trees). I'm not sure where the 6-7GB limit idea comes from but I've got very few filesystems smaller than that, and they are still all ext3.
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