RE: Big Files Handling

Jerome Etienne (jerome@psti.com)
Fri, 9 Apr 1999 12:17:08 -0400


On Friday, April 09, 1999 1:56 AM, Chris Wedgwood [SMTP:cw@ix.net.nz]
wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 10:22:23AM +0200, Sylwester Zelazko wrote:
>
> >How big files kernel can handle ? Is there (in new kernels) still 2Gb
size limit ?
>
> Assuming you mean ext2fs, 2GB-1 for 32-bit platforms, 2TB-1 for
> 64-bit platforms...

so 32bits plateforms doesnt use the same fs format than 64bits ones?
you mean that a disc with a ext2fs formated on alpha cant be read on
a x86 ?

i think that the kernel support the llseek and al operations and so a
file may be
as big as 2^64. but i dont know if any fs handle this kind of file.

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