On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Matti Aarnio wrote:

>       No you don't.  The VFS layer limitations prevent that at 32-bit
>       machines (without my patches, that is.)
> 
>       In fact because the UFS and EXT2 share same principal block
>       addressing scheme at the device, they both have SAME maximum
>       file size limits with given filesystem block size.  (As do all
>       SysV filesystems, Minix FS, etc. all which use the triply-in-
>       directed block addressing scheme coming to us from the original
>       AT&T creation so long ago...)

  Hmmm... make me wonder why VFS wasn't fixed long, long ago then.

> > Tom
> 
> /Matti Aarnio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> 


Tom

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