Well...  other os's are able to get around the limitation (wintendo for 
example).  I'm hoping that ext3 (or just redhat 7.2 itself)  doesn't 
have this limitation.



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>On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 08:48:01AM -0700, Frank Carreiro wrote:
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>>> RedHat 7.2 supports ext3.  I've been playing with it on a small test box 
>>> over the last few weeks.  Does anyone know how large I can make a single 
>>> file with it?
>>> 
>>> I believe ext2 had a limit of around 2 gigs.
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>It's not an ext2 limitation per se. It's a x86/32 bit limitation. ext2
>on 64 bit platforms does not have this limitation. That being said, it
>can be gotten around. I believe it requires some adjustments to glibc
>(?), and maybe the kernel. Then individual apps may be expecting the
>limitation as well.
>
> -- 
> Hal Burgiss
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