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Re: xfs and reiserfs

To: Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: xfs and reiserfs
From: Mark Hounschell <markh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:37:15 -0500
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Seth Mos wrote:
> 
> At 13:38 22-1-2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >Florin Andrei wrote:
> > >
> > >         Is it possible right now to have both XFS and ReiserFS in the
> > kernel?
> > > (and maybe use them simultaneously, on different partitions)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Florin Andrei
> > > "Saying everything is a database is saying nothing at all
> > > and certainly will not improve communication with others.
> > > Database, database database. Database! See?" (Marc Lehmann)
> >
> >Just yesterday I got it working. You must apply the reiser patch first
> >then the XFS patch. I now have a 17g resier and a 17g xfs partition on
> >my
> >system coexsisting. I just finished last night and haven't really tested
> >it much. 2 problems that I am having are, first the 2gb LFS isn't
> >working
> >with the reiser but does work with the XFS. The second problem  is
> >with the xfs. It may show up with the reiser also once I figure out the
> >2gb file size problem. When I do an ls, any file that is larger the 2gb
> >gives some message about something too large to stat. The file is there
> >and I can actually read it. (JUST a large tar ball). You want to start
> >with the vanilla 2.4.0 sources and what ever updates it requires. (See
> >Doc/Changes), apply the reiser first the the xfs patches.
> >   While I'm here does anyone know anything about the 2 problems I
> >descibed above.
> >
> >1. No LFS support in reiser  ( I know this ain't a reiser list. Sorry)
> >2. On an XFS fs, doing an ls in a directory that has a file larger then
> >    2+gb gives a message about to large to stat.
> 
> I can't comment on reiserfs, I have not used that in a while.
> What distribution are you using, and more specific. The glibc version.

It's a SuSE dist 6.4. glibc is from SuSE's shlibs-2.1.3-154 package.
Looks like it's below rev. 
Thanks...
> 
> You will need a recent glibc for the LFS AFAIK.
> 
> [seth@lsautom large]$ ll -h
> total 2.9G
> -rw-r--r--    1 seth     staff        2.9G Jan 22 19:48 largefile.bin
> [seth@lsautom large]$
> 
> This is on a redhat 7 glibc 2.2 system
> 

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Mark Hounschell
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