* Different filesystems
@ Tommy Moore
` Kerry Hoath
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From: Tommy Moore @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hi guys. Are there any filesystems that linux can read and write to that
support files larger than 2 gigs? Have a server that we're using ghost to
backup and when trying to upload the image to the linux machine it stops
at the 2 GB mark. Is there anything short of setting up antoehr MS server
to handle these big files?
Thanks.
Tommy
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Different filesystems Tommy Moore
@ ` Kerry Hoath
` Frank Carmickle
` Jacob Schmude
` Different filesystems Thomas Ward
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From: Kerry Hoath @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Kernel 2.4.x has large file support but you must
compile samba to handle that as well as far as I know.
I am not sure on large file support for 2.2.x will have to test it.
Regards, Kerry.
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:54:49PM -0500, Tommy Moore wrote:
> Hi guys. Are there any filesystems that linux can read and write to that
> support files larger than 2 gigs? Have a server that we're using ghost to
> backup and when trying to upload the image to the linux machine it stops
> at the 2 GB mark. Is there anything short of setting up antoehr MS server
> to handle these big files?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tommy
>
>
>
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` Kerry Hoath
@ ` Frank Carmickle
` Kirk Wood
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From: Frank Carmickle @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hey guys
Reiserfs supports some extremely large files. I don't know about ext2 or
ext3. There was a 2gb limit for ext2 at one point.
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> Kernel 2.4.x has large file support but you must
> compile samba to handle that as well as far as I know.
> I am not sure on large file support for 2.2.x will have to test it.
>
> Regards, Kerry.
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:54:49PM -0500, Tommy Moore wrote:
> > Hi guys. Are there any filesystems that linux can read and write to that
> > support files larger than 2 gigs? Have a server that we're using ghost to
> > backup and when trying to upload the image to the linux machine it stops
> > at the 2 GB mark. Is there anything short of setting up antoehr MS server
> > to handle these big files?
--
Frank Carmickle
phone: 412 761-9568
email: frankiec@dryrose.com
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` Frank Carmickle
@ ` Kirk Wood
` Frank Carmickle
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From: Kirk Wood @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Frank Carmickle wrote:
> Reiserfs supports some extremely large files. I don't know about ext2 or
> ext3. There was a 2gb limit for ext2 at one point.
Umm, while I can understand that someone somewhere may find 2GB a limiting
factor for a file, why would *I* worry about this limit? If I have a
single firle that big, I have other things to worry about.
=======
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Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net
"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at
a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
- President George Bush
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` Kirk Wood
@ ` Frank Carmickle
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From: Frank Carmickle @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Kirk Wood wrote:
> > ext3. There was a 2gb limit for ext2 at one point.
>
> Umm, while I can understand that someone somewhere may find 2GB a limiting
> factor for a file, why would *I* worry about this limit? If I have a
> single firle that big, I have other things to worry about.
Like what? There are lots of times when you have greater then 2gb files.
Consider the case of digital audio or digital video. It doesn't take to
long to reach this limit. Let's do a little math on pre ac3 or dts
encoded surround. I've got 6 channels of 24 bit 96khz audio. Let's say
that this is the sound track for a movie that is 2 hours in length.
Almost all of the audio cards that support 24 bit 96k actually read and
write 32 bits. For my math I'll use 4 bytes.
(((((((4*96000)*60)*120)*6)/1024)/1024)/1024) = 15.44952392578125
So we have ourselves a nice 15.5gb file. Let's hope that we can put that
on our filesystem. Let's do some other math while were at it. How fast
do our disk or disks need to be to make this play with out drop outs?
((((4*96000)*6)/1024)/1024) = 2.197265625
With 2.2mb/sec we don't have any problems at all with disk through
put. If we want to have 48 tracks we would need only 18mb/s. Not to hard
to do by any means.
So what were you getting at?
--
Frank Carmickle
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email: frankiec@dryrose.com
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Different filesystems Tommy Moore
` Kerry Hoath
@ ` Jacob Schmude
` Jim Ruby
` Different filesystems Thomas Ward
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From: Jacob Schmude @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hi
Reiserfs would be your best bet with linux. Not sure what its upper limit is (if it even has one) but it's way above 2GB. Of course you'd need to move some things around and format a linux partition with reiserfs then move everything back. The other nice thing is that reiserfs has a journaling system, meaning no more of those long fscks at boot up. It has been in kernels since 2.4.1.
HTH
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:54:49PM -0500, Tommy Moore wrote:
> Hi guys. Are there any filesystems that linux can read and write to that
> support files larger than 2 gigs? Have a server that we're using ghost to
> backup and when trying to upload the image to the linux machine it stops
> at the 2 GB mark. Is there anything short of setting up antoehr MS server
> to handle these big files?
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` Jacob Schmude
@ ` Jim Ruby
` real player gold pass randy turner
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From: Jim Ruby @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
I thought ext3 had a gernaling system too. If not I would like to do a fresh install using either ext3 or Reiserfs.
Hopefully this can be done as I would like to get rh 7.2 back up and running soon.
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 16:57:06 -0500, Jacob Schmude wrote:
>Hi
> Reiserfs would be your best bet with linux. Not sure what its upper limit is (if it even has one) but it's way above 2GB. Of course you'd need to move some things around and format a linux partition with reiserfs then
move everything back. The other nice thing is that reiserfs has a journaling system, meaning no more of those long fscks at boot up. It has been in kernels since 2.4.1.
>
>HTH
>
>
>On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:54:49PM -0500, Tommy Moore wrote:
>> Hi guys. Are there any filesystems that linux can read and write to that
>> support files larger than 2 gigs? Have a server that we're using ghost to
>> backup and when trying to upload the image to the linux machine it stops
>> at the 2 GB mark. Is there anything short of setting up antoehr MS server
>> to handle these big files?
>
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* Re: Different filesystems
Different filesystems Tommy Moore
` Kerry Hoath
` Jacob Schmude
@ ` Thomas Ward
2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Ward @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Have you tried ext3? It might do what you want. I haven't tried using large
files, but so far it seams pretty stable.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tommy Moore" <tmoore@cmrc.org>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 12:54 PM
Subject: Different filesystems
> Hi guys. Are there any filesystems that linux can read and write to that
> support files larger than 2 gigs? Have a server that we're using ghost to
> backup and when trying to upload the image to the linux machine it stops
> at the 2 GB mark. Is there anything short of setting up antoehr MS server
> to handle these big files?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tommy
>
>
>
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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