Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Rob Sell <maillists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marlier, Ian wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Sell [mailto:maillists@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:39 AM
> > To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [SLE] File limits
> >
> > Is there a way to check what limitations a suse 10 server has on
> files?
> > I admin a server for about 85 mail users and have spamassassin
> > configured to write all caught spam to a file and not deliver. The
> other
> > day all the spams were being tagged and delivered. I looked at the
> file
> > and it was pretty large so I moved it and gzipped it. Spams started
> > being delivered to the empty file again. The file was  (~2.1gigs) in
> > size. I don't believe I have quotas of any sort enabled. I'm just
> > wondering where to start looking into why this happened.
> >
> > Rob
>
> Any number of filesystems have a 2GB limit on filesize (and it can cause
> big big issues at times!).  A default install of (for example) SuSE 9.1
> -- just a couple of years back -- used a version of ext2/3 as its
> default FS, and that was susceptible to this condition.
>
> I'm assuming that reiser isn't vulnerable, and that the newer ext2/ext3
> versions in later releases aren't, but haven't tried to find out :-)

I guess I should've mentioned that this is reiserfs3. And according to 
the chart that stephan linked to reiser3 has a file limit of 8TiB so its 
not the filesytem itself.

Rob