Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wonders:
> Hmmm... make me wonder why VFS wasn't fixed long, long ago then.
> Tom
The story is long, like Mark SCHAEFER here mentioned.
The problem sphere consists of many parts, these include:
- Passing file offset information around; 2.0 had a 'long' (which
size de
Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmmm... make me wonder why VFS wasn't fixed long, long ago then.
Linus says that 64 bit words are too inefficient on i386 and that
if you want > 2 GB you should upgrade to a 64 bit architecture, such
as MIPS, Alpha or SPARC. It's the same reason which made a fig
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 maxi
Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pronouncedth:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> > With Linux 2.0 kernel series at 32-bit systems (e.g. i386)
> > the answer is: 2G is absolute limit, period.
> >
> > The longer answer contains the size limit explanations
> > which are available a
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dietmar Stein) asked:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > not really the topic - I know - but I read that the maximum size of one
> > file is currently 2GB on linux like on other operating systems (e.g
> > HP-UX supports filesizes above 2GB but HP d
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dietmar Stein) asked:
> Hi guys,
>
> not really the topic - I know - but I read that the maximum size of one
> file is currently 2GB on linux like on other operating systems (e.g
> HP-UX supports filesizes above 2GB but HP does not take support for it).
>
> Is there a way to i
Hi guys,
not really the topic - I know - but I read that the maximum size of one
file is currently 2GB on linux like on other operating systems (e.g
HP-UX supports filesizes above 2GB but HP does not take support for it).
Is there a way to increase the size for testing? I was looking for a
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