Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3513 mails)

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Philipp Thomas wrote:
> 
> * Jonathan Wilson [Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:59:40 -0600]:
> 
> >Would you please define "lfs-able" ? Are you saying that it somehow breaks LFS compliance,
> >or are you just saying that there's no specifications for it?
> 
> reiserFS 3.5.X as used in kernel 2.2 doesn't support files > 2GB, it's
> that simple :) reiserFS 3.6.X as it's in kernel 2.4.2 does support those
> but there is one grave caveat:
> 
> if you either create fresh 3.6 partitions or convert 3.5 to 3.6, you
> won't be able to install or update your system from a SuSE Linux 7.1 CD
> and you can't use the rescue disk from the CD. This because 7.1 uses
> kernel 2.2 in all boot images and thus can't handle reiserFS 3.6
> partitions.

This means you cannot boot from CD / disk to update / install doesn't
it?
I mean if I upgrade to 3.6 and boot my 2.4.x kernel I should be able to
install from CD. Otherwise that >2GB thing would be useless.
In the "old" times, there used to be three disks: The boot, the root and
the yast disk. Furthermore, there was also a rescue disk. Is there any
chance to recreate these and offer them for d/l to solve that problem?
Granted, no yast2 with these, but if there is a chance to rescue my
reiser 3.6... Btw, my problem with gramofile might be caused by reiser
3.5 as well...

Juergen



> 
> As SuSE Linux 7.2 will most probably use kernel 2.4 by default, this
> problem will vanish.
> 

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