[ale] file size limit?

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Tue Nov 23 15:52:23 EST 2004


Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:24, Geoffrey wrote:

>>http://tinyurl.com/5makt
> 
> 
> A cool table.  Especially cool is the claim in the table that JFS
> supports files 2^11 times bigger that the the filesystem itself!
> 
> That appears to be a magic property of JFS.  All the other limit their
> files to a size smaller than the filesystem as a whole.  I wonder how
> they do it?

Look again at ReiserFS 3.6 same thing.  I was wondering about that as 
well. :)


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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