On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:12:22AM +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
> > 2. What are the differences between ReiserFS for 2.2.x kernels and 2.4.x
> > kernels as for now ? Except the target kernel version, of course...
> >
>
> There are 2 formats of reiserfs. They are referred to as 3.5 and 3.6.
> mkreiserfs of reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j (for instance) has a switch (-v) to
> create either 3.5 (-v 1) or 3.6 format (-v 2 or default). Under 2.4 you can
> work with both 3.5 and 3.6 formats. Under 2.2 you can work only with 3.5
> format filesystems.
Why isn't the switch "-v 3.5" and "-v 3.6" ?
well, suppose it's too late to change anyway...
> On a filesystem of 3.6 format you can have files longer than 2 gb and have
> more that 64k links to a file.
If you're refering to my patch, it doesn't allow more than 64k links,
only more than 64k subdirectories. (but the format has room for 64k
links)
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Ragnar Kjørstad
Big Storage
