ext 3

jason at dixongroup.net jason at dixongroup.net
Wed Sep 22 18:21:40 UTC 2004


> I have some general questions about the ext3 filesystem
>
> What is the maximum filesystem size?
> Is there any performance degradation at the filesystem gets large?
> 	if so, where does it begin?
>
> If there a way to bypass system buffercache for an ext3 filesystem?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

Remember, ext3 is simply ext2 with journaling.  There is plenty of
documentation out there to answer your questions (Google, kernel source,
etc).  I suggest you start here:

/usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt


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Jason Dixon, RHCE
DixonGroup Consulting
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