Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Nov 2001 12:09:25 +0300 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: Maximum (efficient) partition sizes for various filesystem types... |
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Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>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. > >Cheers, > Stephen >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >
I bet the origin is the time it takes to run fsck. If so, run any journaling filesystem and you'll be okay. We have 2 terabyte systems out there, I bet ext3 does also.
hans
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