I'm just curious. What is the application that requires > 2Gb filesize?
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Michael Boman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Linux EXT2 filesystem (and I guess this goes for all other 32 bit FS
> >as well) has a limit of 2 Gb in filesize.
>
> No it doesn't. It's something like 8TB. The 2Gb limitation comes
> from the rest of the kernel and not ext2.
>
> >So, if you are running on a
> >Intel platform, I guess that you have to wait 'till Intel release their
> >64 Bit CPU..
>
> Or for the 2.4 kernel, which combined with GNU libc support will
> support LFS (64 bit file access) on 32 bit platforms.
>
> Mike.
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