Re: ext2 file sizes

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@sonera.fi)
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 21:20:04 +0300


As lots of people seem to ask me the same thing...

On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 06:14:24PM +0000, Mark Hahn wrote:
> Matti Aarnio wrote:
> > In some soon upcoming 2.3.18ac* version there will be
> > Large-File-Summit code in it, and with it you will be
> > able to exceed the 2 GB filesize limit at 32-bit systems.
>
> wow. do you and Alan think Linus will accept this, given the feature freeze?
> thanks, mark hahn.

I have tried to push it in during the summer, but
I have not had time to track every move that Linus'
kernel is doing (those recent major merges).

If it depended only on me, Alan and Stephen, it would already
be in, but we are not Linus...

We shall see.

/Matti Aarnio

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