RE: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-20 Thread Pieckiel, Kevin A
found some stumbling block that prevented it? I dunno... I'd like your comments, please. Kevin -Original Message- From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 8:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2 gig filesize limit ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.

Re: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-18 Thread John Summerfield
I know that while evaluating Reiser FS for use on SourceForge we've created files up to 4gb in size. Some versions of reiserfs had a hack for this. Its not a good idea and Im told its now been removed. If you grab the LFS patches for 2.2 from the RH 6.2beta kernel rpms you'll be able to

2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread terry barnum
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, so I apologize if it isn't. Running intel RH6.1 with 18 gigs of drive space striped as RAID 0. Is there a way to work with files larger than 2 gigs? I understand there is an issue with 32 bit architecture, but I believe there are other OSes doing

Re: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread Alan Cox
I know that while evaluating Reiser FS for use on SourceForge we've created files up to 4gb in size. Some versions of reiserfs had a hack for this. Its not a good idea and Im told its now been removed. If you grab the LFS patches for 2.2 from the RH 6.2beta kernel rpms you'll be able to build

Re: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread terry barnum
I know that while evaluating Reiser FS for use on SourceForge we've created files up to 4gb in size. Some versions of reiserfs had a hack for this. Its not a good idea and Im told its now been removed. If you grab the LFS patches for 2.2 from the RH 6.2beta kernel rpms you'll be able to build

Re: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread Alan Cox
So are you saying that installing the LFS patches into RH6.1 running on an Intel P2 box will enable a new 64bit version of ext2 (ext3?) filesystem that can handle large files? Yes. The ext2 fs can already handle large files, its the infrastructure around it you need to get. The patches add

Re: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.2beta/i386/RedHat/ and couldn't find anything related to LFS. Thanks for your patience and sorry to ask so many questions but I haven't been able to find any info so I can figure it out for myself. They are in the kernel srpm but commented out by

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-31 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, terry barnum wrote: I've been unsuccessfully trying to move a 3 gig file from WinNTSP4 onto our RH6.1 server that has a 9 gig ext2 drive mounted as ext2 has a 2GB file size limit. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-31 Thread Agustin Navarro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, terry barnum wrote: I've been unsuccessfully trying to move a 3 gig file from WinNTSP4 onto our RH6.1 server that has a 9 gig ext2 drive mounted as /bigdrive. Samba fails at 2 gigs with an error in the log saying, "File too

2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-30 Thread terry barnum
I've been unsuccessfully trying to move a 3 gig file from WinNTSP4 onto our RH6.1 server that has a 9 gig ext2 drive mounted as /bigdrive. Samba fails at 2 gigs with an error in the log saying, "File too large." I thought, well maybe Samba has a problem with large files. So I tried to ftp the

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-30 Thread Christopher Fisk
e2fs has a 2gb filesize limit. Chris On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, terry barnum wrote: I've been unsuccessfully trying to move a 3 gig file from WinNTSP4 onto our RH6.1 server that has a 9 gig ext2 drive mounted as /bigdrive. Samba fails at 2 gigs with an error in the log saying, "File too large." I

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-30 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 11:48:09AM -0800, terry barnum wrote: I've been unsuccessfully trying to move a 3 gig file from WinNTSP4 onto our RH6.1 server that has a 9 gig ext2 drive mounted as /bigdrive. Samba fails at 2 gigs with an error in the log saying, "File too large." I thought, well

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-30 Thread Steve Borho
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 11:48:09AM -0800, terry barnum wrote: I've been unsuccessfully trying to move a 3 gig file from WinNTSP4 onto our RH6.1 server that has a 9 gig ext2 drive mounted as /bigdrive. Samba fails at 2 gigs with an error in the log saying, "File too large." I thought, well

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-30 Thread terry barnum
Hi Chris, e2fs has a 2gb filesize limit. Thanks for the quick reply. Is there a fs than I can use that will handle 2g files? -terry Digital OutPost http://www.dop.com -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-30 Thread terry barnum
At 12:02 PM -0800 12/30/99, Hal Burgiss wrote: There is a 2G ext2 file size limit that is the result of the x86 32bit architecture. IIRC, there is a patch somewhere that ups the limit. Is it possible that using a RAID could increase the max filesize? Up until last week, we used to have two 9

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-30 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Christopher Fisk wrote: e2fs has a 2gb filesize limit. Correction : The i386 has this limit.. With glibc 2.1.2 and a kernel patch this problem goed away.. Chris Igmar -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-30 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, terry barnum wrote: Hi Chris, e2fs has a 2gb filesize limit. Thanks for the quick reply. Is there a fs than I can use that will handle 2g files? It's a kernel problem, and has nothing to do with ext2... Patch the kernel, get a new glibc and the problem goes away.