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Re: [PATCH][ALPHA 3] ext2fs and large stores (> 1.5G)
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Robert Millan |
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Re: [PATCH][ALPHA 3] ext2fs and large stores (> 1.5G) |
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Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:26:39 +0000 |
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Hi Ognyan!
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:51:37PM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
>
> RELIABILITY
> -----------
>
> I put a great effort (and time) to assure that there will be no problems
> with Alpha 3. Unfortunately, I still can't claim that. Data corruption
> seems to be gone, but there are some strange hangs after an hour of
> compiling glibc (on P4 1.6G) that I cannot look closely. For example,
> the compilation is working in screen program window, but keyboard
> doesn't respond, even Alt-F2 doesn't work (console server is running).
> I connect to telnetd, do "ps ax", and after some printed lines, the
> machine reboots... If you don't push the ext2fs server too much, there
> is a chance you won't have problems.
Are you running your patched server as the root filesystem?
> E2FSPROGS
> ---------
>
> e2fsprogs uses Unix API to work with partitions/images. Unfortunately,
> we have a limit of 2G for files, so I've made an ugly patch for
> e2fsprogs that uses libstore in e2fsck as "Hurd IO manager". Probably
> when the patch is polished, I'll send it upstream.
Why not fix the 2G limit instead? This adds more work in maintaining
e2fsprogs code and is a hack that distracts from the real problem
that needs fixing.
Anyway, most people create their partitions for GNU from a GNU/Linux
system so e2fsprogs shouldn't have much problem.
--
Robert Millan