Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Sep 1999 12:57:08 +0200 (MET_DST) | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: ext2 file sizes |
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On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:31:38PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > .... (using other operating systems than Linux at ia32 system) .... > > I'd say no on both claims here. > > > > a.) (most simple solution) Get an Alpha, Sparc64 or Power64 (not PPC) > > based machine > > Initial condition was stated as: "ia32 system", > which excludes current 64-bit systems...
Sorry, missed out that one... :/
> > b.) I don't believe Matti Aarnio's patches are too far away... > > > > Of course, at least for video & audio, using Raw-IO would probably be a > > third alternative. > > Thanks for the "b", but for grabbing I would (myself) use > initially raw partition and Raw-IO, then I would pull the > data out from there in a more leisure pace to normal > filesystem for non-realtime task of editing -- and for > the playback I would again drop it into the Raw-IO... > > For video playback (and grabbing) nothing really beats > filesystems with 32-to-256 kB block sizes, and schedulable > IO. Linux does not have such a beast - so far... > (Getting extent indexing into EXT2 would allow it to mutate > towards such wonder animal, though..) > > If you want to play some, my LFS things are at: > ftp://mea.tmt.tele.fi/linux/LFS/
Well... My largest disk at the moment is 200 MB, so...
(I do all kernel-dev at the University)
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