Re: 2GIG-file

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 16:56:08 EST


> asking about "commercial" linux distributions he could get his hands on,
> and most folks are still on 2.2.X. Some of the FS drivers treat this
> field as a signed long in 2.2.X.

ext2 supports >2Gig file systems with the patches in fact it will go over
4Gig happily.

> SMBFS since it's an NT server -- I don't think so? Since the VFS is
> limited to 2GB, I guess he can install large FS support, then stare at
> the system and wonder how to get the file onto it.

The VFS is not limited to 2Gig with the patches, some file systems may be due
to internal limits (eg NFSv2).

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