On 19 Apr, Andre John Cruz wrote:
> hello everyone,
>
> is there any way to beat the 2GB file size limit on Linux?
> I wonder if kernel 2.4 has mechanisms for this.
>
At present, no. Since the kernel still uses signed 32-bit offsets for
the lseek system call, even in kernel 2.4, the 2 gig file size limit
remains. Any change to this that would allow 64-bit or even bigger
offsets would be a far-reaching change that would eventually touch
every system library and executable.
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