Re: 1GB Limit on EXT2FS?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
25 Mar 1998 05:03:48 GMT

Followup to: <199803250506.VAA07735@sparky.nisa.net>
By author: Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Is there a way around the 1GB File size limitation on Ext2? I'm pulling
> a bunch of stuff of a tape from a mainframe, and the files are about
> 3GB in size.
>

It's actually 2 GB, but the answer, for now, is unfortunately "no".
Large file support for ext2 is supposed to go into 2.3.

-hpa

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