In article <01db01bf32eb$5850b1d0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>Do we HAVE to use EXT2 ? I understand this is a limitation imposed by the
>ext2 filesystem rather than the hardware architecture... Is there not a way
>to create a different file-system using Linux?
EXT2 supports files up to a couple of terrabytes in size, and 64bit linux
can read/write them. However, limitations in the VFS on 32bit linux restrict
32bit linux to 2Gb files.
This limit has been removed in the very latest 2.3 kernels, but we still need
to wait for userspace to catch up.
If you don't need mmap, there is a spacial filesystem called smugfs which allows
large files on 32bit, I don't have URL handy however.
- Regards, Robert.
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