> On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 03:24:10PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > It appears as though mke2fs will not allow operation on a partition
> > that exceeds about 3++ gigabytes. It errors out with "illegal
> > request" messages.
>
> old e2fsprogs and/or old libc
>
Well I thought I had the latest. I will check it out. The libc is
glibc-2.0.6. There is a newer version, but it failed to compile using
gcc-2.7.2.
I guess I will have to unstall another compiler, but the egs thingy
breaks a lot of code as you can see from the mailing list.
> (llseek was broken once opon a time, so over 2GB things broke)
>
> > It also appears as though mkswap will not allow a swap partition in
> > excess of about 128 megabytes.
>
> swap file limitation use more than one swap file or sct's new `big
> swap files patch'
>
I think having a swap-file that is smaller than physical RAM negates
the true value of a swap-file. It's probably time for the kernel and
tools to allow a swap-file that is at least as large as the RAM that
can be addressed (real, not virtual).
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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