Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 15:08:46 +0200 From: Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all, I've been reading (a bit) the source code of the ext2fs... Why it maps the entire filesystem into vm ? Because that's convenient? :-) Somebody told me here that this way the filesystem can't be bigger than 1GB. But this only applies to the root filesystem, isn't it ? I've mounted a bigger partition and works fine. Why? The exact amount depends on how large the largest free continuous block of VM is when the filesystem tries to map the disk. This might be different for ext2fs.static (which is used for the root filesystem) than for the dynamically linked ext2fs that you probably use for other partitions. Apart from that there are no real differences. Mark