On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:30:36AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > The problem is not just a system-level one, but a filesystem-level > one. Enabling 64 bits by default might be dangerous, because a DBA > might think "oh, it supports largefiles by default" and therefore not > notice that the filesystem itself is not mounted with largefile > support. But I suspect that the developers would welcome autoconfig > patches if someone offered them.
Are there any filesystems in common use (not including windows ones) that don't support >32-bit filesizes? Linux (ext2) I know supports by default at least to 2TB (2^32 x 512bytes), probably much more. What about the BSDs? XFS? etc -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary > arithmetic and those that can't. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
