Re: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
So sprach Giuseppe Ghibo' am Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:45:45PM +0200: BTW, FYI I finally wrote a 5GB file on a reiserfs 3.6 12GB partition (at 24MB/s). Currently I'm going for 10GB file. Hmm, what tools did you use to create the reiserfs? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de iso-top.de - Die guenstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 1 day 22 hours 20 minutes
Re: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, FYI I finally wrote a 5GB file on a reiserfs 3.6 12GB partition (at 24MB/s). Currently I'm going for 10GB file. Hmm, what tools did you use to create the reiserfs? mkreiserfs :-)
Re: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Giuseppe Ghibo' am Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:45:45PM +0200: BTW, FYI I finally wrote a 5GB file on a reiserfs 3.6 12GB partition (at 24MB/s). Currently I'm going for 10GB file. Also 10GB successfull (at 22MB/s) and bzipped2. Hmm, what tools did you use to create the reiserfs? I told you: remove reiserfs-utils, and install reiserfsprogs 3.0.x-i or j, then mkreiserfs mkreiserfs -q -v 2 /dev/hda8 You can check with mkreiserfsck /dev/hda8 and then: mount /dev/hda8 /mnt/disk Bye. Giuseppe.
Re: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
So sprach R.I.P. Deaddog am Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:04:39AM +0800: not compiled with big filesystem support? I'm just using Mandrake stuff - so, obviously, Mandrake people don't compile with big fs support, do they? (Hmm, I mean the tools the guys @ Mandrake compile don't have big fs support - I don't really know if the guys @ Mandrake are compiled with big fs *G*). Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de iso-top.de - Die guenstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 12 hours 11 minutes
Re: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach R.I.P. Deaddog am Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:04:39AM +0800: not compiled with big filesystem support? I'm just using Mandrake stuff - so, obviously, Mandrake people don't compile with big fs support, do they? (Hmm, I mean the tools the guys @ Mandrake compile don't have big fs support - I don't really know if the guys @ Mandrake are compiled with big fs *G*). Of course there is. On ext2 I just created a 5GB file and compressed it with bzip2 (gzip still needs some further patches, as well as mc). fileutils and textutils support it. For other applications still depends (e.g. joe can't edit a file so big...). On reiserfs there are still problems because it still chokes on my chipset with latest kernels (.2-25mdk, .3-3mdk) so can't test myself for big files. Bye. Giuseppe.
Re: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
"R.I.P. Deaddog" wrote: 4G = 2^32.. not compiled with big filesystem support? On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello! With kernel 2.4.2, shouldn't it be possible to create files which are larger than 4GB on a reiserfs 3.6 partition? I've tried dd which is part of fileutils-4.0-18mdk, but this stops at (4GB - 1Byte). Is this expected? Are you sure it was a 3.6 partition and not a 3.5 partition which has a file size limit to 4GB-1 bytes (3.6 to be created with mkreiserfs -v 2 and latest reiserfsprogs)? Try this program: Usage: bigfile1 bigfile.txt 5000 where 5000 is number of megabytes to write, so here 5GB. Bye. Giuseppe. bigfile1
Re: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
Oh I was too careless, didn't notice it's talking about reiserfs 3.6, sorry :P On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Giuseppe Ghibo' wrote: Are you sure it was a 3.6 partition and not a 3.5 partition which has a file size limit to 4GB-1 bytes (3.6 to be created with mkreiserfs -v 2 and latest reiserfsprogs)? Try this program: Usage: bigfile1 bigfile.txt 5000 where 5000 is number of megabytes to write, so here 5GB. Bye. Giuseppe.
Re: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
So sprach Giuseppe Ghibo' am Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:01:57AM +0200: Are you sure it was a 3.6 partition and not a 3.5 partition which has a file size limit to 4GB-1 bytes (3.6 to be created with mkreiserfs -v 2 and latest reiserfsprogs)? Uh - you're right! It seems to be a 3.5 partition. I always thought, that when you create a reiserfs with a 2.4 kernel, it will be a 3.6 fs - guess not. Will try to create a true 3.6 fs the way you just wrote this night. Try this program: Stops at 4GB-1byte. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de iso-top.de - Die guenstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 17 hours 17 minutes
Re: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Giuseppe Ghibo' am Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:01:57AM +0200: Are you sure it was a 3.6 partition and not a 3.5 partition which has a file size limit to 4GB-1 bytes (3.6 to be created with mkreiserfs -v 2 and latest reiserfsprogs)? Uh - you're right! It seems to be a 3.5 partition. I always thought, that when you create a reiserfs with a 2.4 kernel, it will be a 3.6 fs - guess not. Will try to create a true 3.6 fs the way you just wrote this night. depends on which mkreiserfs version you used to create the partition. Try this program: Stops at 4GB-1byte. on 3.6 partition ? Bye. Giuseppe.
RE: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
So does this mean that, when I upgrade, I will have to reformat my partitions? I currently have LM 7.2 installed. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Giuseppe Ghibo' Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 6:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files? Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Giuseppe Ghibo' am Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:01:57AM +0200: Are you sure it was a 3.6 partition and not a 3.5 partition which has a file size limit to 4GB-1 bytes (3.6 to be created with mkreiserfs -v 2 and latest reiserfsprogs)? Uh - you're right! It seems to be a 3.5 partition. I always thought, that when you create a reiserfs with a 2.4 kernel, it will be a 3.6 fs - guess not. Will try to create a true 3.6 fs the way you just wrote this night. depends on which mkreiserfs version you used to create the partition. Try this program: Stops at 4GB-1byte. on 3.6 partition ? Bye. Giuseppe.
Re: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
Kevin Krieser wrote: So does this mean that, when I upgrade, I will have to reformat my partitions? There should be an option "-o conv" on mount, to convert 3.5 to 3.6, but sincerely I never tested. Note also that 3.6 is not supported by kernek 2.2.X for now. Bye. Giuseppe.
Re: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
So sprach Giuseppe Ghibo' am Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 01:41:26PM +0200: depends on which mkreiserfs version you used to create the partition. reiserfs-utils-3.6.25-7mdk on 3.6 partition ? Yes. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de iso-top.de - Die guenstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 23 hours 45 minutes
Re: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
So sprach Kevin Krieser am Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:16:25AM -0500: So does this mean that, when I upgrade, I will have to reformat my partitions? No, you don't HAVE to, unless you want to use the new 3.6 features - like big files, which don't seem to work anyway kernel 2.4's reiser reads old reiserfs partitions just fine. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de iso-top.de - Die guenstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 23 hours 46 minutes
Re: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Giuseppe Ghibo' am Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 01:41:26PM +0200: depends on which mkreiserfs version you used to create the partition. reiserfs-utils-3.6.25-7mdk on 3.6 partition ? Yes. Use reiserfsprogs-3.x-0i. Bye. Giuseppe.
Re: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
On Wednesday 04 April 2001 15:48, you wrote: There should be an option "-o conv" on mount, to convert 3.5 to 3.6, but sincerely I never tested. DON'T! I tried this option serveral times with different kernels and I allways expierienced heavy filesystem corruption. And I mean heavy! BTW, the -o conv doesn't convert the filesystem really but marks it, so that it can't be mounted by 2.2.x kernels again. Only newly created files will be of the new format. Cheers, Andreas Simon
RE: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
Thanks. That would be a big benefit for me, since I would like the option of backing up my Win2K laptop directly to a large file, rather than several smaller files. And the backup program doesn't support compression. Kevin Krieser wrote: So does this mean that, when I upgrade, I will have to reformat my partitions? There should be an option "-o conv" on mount, to convert 3.5 to 3.6, but sincerely I never tested. Note also that 3.6 is not supported by kernek 2.2.X for now.
[Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
Hello! With kernel 2.4.2, shouldn't it be possible to create files which are larger than 4GB on a reiserfs 3.6 partition? I've tried dd which is part of fileutils-4.0-18mdk, but this stops at (4GB - 1Byte). Is this expected? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de iso-top.de - Die guenstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 4 hours 27 minutes
Re: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?
4G = 2^32.. not compiled with big filesystem support? On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello! With kernel 2.4.2, shouldn't it be possible to create files which are larger than 4GB on a reiserfs 3.6 partition? I've tried dd which is part of fileutils-4.0-18mdk, but this stops at (4GB - 1Byte). Is this expected? Alexander Skwar
