On Mon, 13 May 2002 21:05:29 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) wrote: > > I assume this 2Gb file size limit is a limitation within the ext2 file > > system? Does ext3 have this same issue? Which file systems can handle > > I could be wrong, but I think you'd run up against a 2gb limit regardless > of filesystem, because the library calls for lseek() which are used to > position to a point in the file have capacity for only long values (4 > bytes) and 2gb is the biggest number you can put in a long (signed, > that is). Whether support exists for unsigned long (4gb) I don't know. > > Anything much greater than that and one needs support for 'long long' > (64 bit) types. I figure we won't be needing anything greater than > that anytime soon :). > > > Ashley >
now THIS is the kind of info i like from an Open Source based community. ;o) by the way, my old Operating Systems book says something about Unix filesystems and inodes, i'm not sure at all if i recall correctly, but i think for a unix file system the maximum file size was about 4G and the cause of this limit is the amount of inodes you can possibly use to allocate space for a single file... i lent my book to my girlfriend ( yea she studies the same stuff as i do ;o) so i'm not able to check it out and say for sure.. :o/ Damian
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