Re: XFS to be released as GPL - is there still a 2 GB file size limit?
Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:00:50 +0200
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 11:11:12AM +0200, Andreas Helke wrote:
> A few weeks ago I did check the state of Linux's handling of big files
> (> 2 GB). From that I got the strong impression that the more and more
> annoying 2 GB limit is pretty strongly enforced by the VFS layer if
> Linux is running on a 32 bit CPU like the x86. That limit seems to be
> independent of the basic capabilities of the file system.
>
> I would love to be proved wrong but I don't have much hope. Is there a
> realistic chance that a normal Linux system running on a 32 bit CPU will
> eventually overcome the 2 GB file size limit?
See Matti Aarni's LFS work:
ftp://mea.tmt.tele.fi/linux/LFS/
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Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
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