On 2003.04.09 09:41 Robert Fenney wrote:
3) Has anyone worked with any of the file systems that support large files ( greater than 1 or 2 gigs?) I use Reiser but maybe it is time to look at one of the other file systems if Reiser does not support this?
reiser supports files > 2GB. You could also look at XFS, which is a very nice file system.
4) I know that there has been a lot of bandwidth on the system shutdown behavior with the SMP kernels but really isn't it about time for SuSE to fix this? I mean really, all of the system house have this working, why do we need to recompile the kernel just for this? The behavior should be the same between the single CPU and multi-CPU kernels out of the box.
APM doesn't support SMP, that's the problem. The replacement, which does support SMP is ACPI. 8.0, IIRC, didn't have a very good implementation of ACPI. 8.1 out of the box had a few problems, which on my machine were solved by adding the kernel parameter pci=acpi. The updated kernel for 8.1 doesn't need that, so get that one from your preferred ftp mirror. Anders