Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:37:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> To: webmaster@wmptl.com, sm5iuf@telia.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD filesystem limitations Message-ID: <200104251837.f3PIb6q98415@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
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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
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