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From: Andi Kleen <ak@colin2.muc.de>
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Subject: Re: 2 TB partition support
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> Has the kmalloc problem in Reiserfs gone away?  It used to be that the
> limit for a Reiser filesystem was determined by how many pointers
> could fit into a kmalloced chunk of memory; thus the 64-bit system
> limit was half teh 32-bit system limit.

I don't know. i haven't tested reiserfs (or any other fs) with big file 
systems.

I was just talking about the theoretic limits in the block layer.

-Andi