I use reiserfs at home on all but the partition of my distro(didn't want to move everything off there to reformat :) ). It seems to run quite nicely, no problems yet; it recovers MUCH quicker from hard reboots than ext2fs. -----Original Message----- From: J.L.Francois [mailto:frenchie@magusnet.gilbert.az.us] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 11:00 AM To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: max ext2 partition ReiserFS is in use on some production WWW sites. I am using it in production and haven't lost any data yet ;) EXt3 doesn't look good for 2.2.x series kernels yet. I didn't look at TuxFS. Boot times =========== Hardware: Custom 1.4 TB Disk array ( Fibre Channel ) Intel 800MHZ, 1 GIG RAM File Server. I pulled the power plug on the file server during a local and network write to the disk array here and found the following: Mandrake 7.2 with custom kernel and ext2: Don't bother waiting. The sun will be a cold speck in space before this comes up. Mandrake 7.2 with custom kernel and ReiserFS: Approxx. 2 minutes total boot time to prompt. OpenBSD 2.7 with custom kernel and FFS: Minimum boot time was 10 minutes no matter what since newfs couldn't write rotational data to the array. Not entirely scientific but thats all the data I kept. HTH. HAND JLF Sends... It seems like on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 08:17:27AM -0700, Blake Barnett scribbled: Orig Msg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Orig Msg> Hash: SHA1 Orig Msg> Orig Msg> Is reiserfs ready for production use yet? I have a need for Orig Msg> something like that on linux right NOW. And I'd love to keep as much Orig Msg> of my current project on linux as possible. If reiserfs isn't ready, Orig Msg> is TuxFS? Ext3FS? Anything else for linux? Orig Msg> Orig Msg> Blake Barnett Orig Msg> Sr. Unix Administrator for DevelopOnline.com Orig Msg> blake.barnett@developonline.com Orig Msg> Orig Msg> Orig Msg> - -----Original Message----- Orig Msg> From: J.L.Francois [mailto:frenchie@magusnet.gilbert.az.us] Orig Msg> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 7:23 AM Orig Msg> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Orig Msg> Subject: Re: max ext2 partition Orig Msg> Orig Msg> Orig Msg> At home I have a 44 GB disk mounted and made with ext2 Orig Msg> and at work I have a 1.05 TB disk array that at one time was mounted Orig Msg> with Orig Msg> no problems after doing a mke2fs -m0 to it. Orig Msg> I have done this with ext2, reiserfs, and BSD ffs, and all of them Orig Msg> worked fine for > 1TB sizes. Orig Msg> Orig Msg> LVM or the raidtools will let you combine drives in linux. Orig Msg> Orig Msg> The limit isn't normally size, but how many drives you can have Orig Msg> in an array/pool set. Orig Msg> Orig Msg> YMMV. Orig Msg> Orig Msg> It seems like on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 10:02:33PM -0700, Don Harrop Orig Msg> scribbled: Orig Msg> Orig Msg> I've been doing some Linux on some bigger HD's lately. Orig Msg> Seems like the Orig Msg> Orig Msg> largest partition ext2 can support is 8gigs. Am I stuck Orig Msg> with this or is Orig Msg> Orig Msg> there a trick to creating a larger partition that I don't Orig Msg> know about? Is Orig Msg> Orig Msg> there a way to connect two drives together as one logical Orig Msg> partition? I Orig Msg> Orig Msg> wan't to create the biggest partition I can in Linux with Orig Msg> the utilities Orig Msg> Orig Msg> that come with the a standard Linux distro. Orig Msg> Orig Msg> Orig Msg> Orig Msg> Don Orig Msg> Orig Msg> Jean Francois - JLF Sends... Orig Msg> President & CEO - MagusNet, Inc., MagusNet.com, Orig Msg> MagusNet.Gilbert.AZ.US Orig Msg> Director Of Managed Services - OpNIX,Inc., www.opnix.com Orig Msg> OpNIX - Simply Better Bandwidth Orig Msg> 602-770-JLF1 - Cellular, ICQ: 8137851 Orig Msg> My Certifications: Orig Msg> http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=1214021 ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss