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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