On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Andreas Baer wrote: > I think it's 2TB for the file size and 2e73 for the file system, Note that there is no fsck that will check a filesystem much larger than a TB or so in any reasonable amount of time. If something goes wrong with your system (as invariably happens with any computer), you might just end up waiting days for fsck to finish. I am hoping that cluster filesystems may be able to bring relief here, with the fsck pretending to be just another node in the cluster and doing the fsck while the system is running. > but I don't understand the second reference and the part about the > CONIFG_LBD. What is exactly the CONFIG_LBD option? CONFIG_LBD makes your system use 64 bit sector numbers, on 32 bit computers. This slows down computation a little bit (I'm not sure it is measurable), but allows you to use way larger block devices. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
