Re: 1GB Limit on EXT2FS?

Harald Milz (hm@seneca.muc.de)
Sun, 5 Apr 98 13:51 CEST


Ian Eure (ieure@peninsula.wednet.edu) wrote:
> Jacques Gelinas wrote:
>
> > The size of the partition is not the problem here. This is the size of a
> > file. For sure you can create 9gig partition with ext2 now without
> > problem, but you can't create a 3gig file in it.
>
> I remember trying to mke2fs a 9 gig ext2 drive- I ran out of memory- and this
> was on a 64mb box :)

I created and used a 33.6 Gig ext2 FS on a RAID 0 striped array (SSA
attached via a Vicom SLIC) on my 64 MB machine running 2.0.29 just
fine. So the FS size practically is a non-issue.

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