From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 11:37: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from saturn.cs.uml.edu (saturn.cs.uml.edu [129.63.8.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FC6437B423 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:37:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from acahalan@saturn.cs.uml.edu) Received: (from acahalan@localhost) by saturn.cs.uml.edu (8.11.0/8.11.2) id f3PIb6q98415; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:37:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:37:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200104251837.f3PIb6q98415@saturn.cs.uml.edu> From: "Albert D. Cahalan" To: webmaster@wmptl.com, sm5iuf@telia.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD filesystem limitations Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gunnar Isaksson wrote: > In Linux (without special kernel patches) there is > a filesize limit of 2GB and fsck is slow. > > It's my memory that fsck is much faster on FreeBSD > due to some magic in the filesystem. Is this the > case? (My 46GB disks would like that) > > I have no memory of any filesize limitation on > FreeBSD and would like to know if there is anything > similar to the Linux 2GB limit? Linux does not have a 2 GB limit. No patch is needed. You might need to upgrade; Red Hat 7.1 would work. If fsck performance bothers you, then you should use a journalling filesystem like Reiserfs. Then you will not need to run fsck after power loss. BTW, anybody can make a fast fsck... but is it good? The ext2 one has a huge regression test suite. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message