Re: ext2 file sizes

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@sonera.fi)
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:38:15 +0300

On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:48:07AM -0400, Blankenship, Keith wrote:
> I am having some difficulty with the ext2 file systems. I need to generate a
> file that will be > 5 Gigabytes, and there appears to be a file size cap at
> approximately 2 Gig. I am running what appears to be a version 2.0.36
> Kernel. Is there anything I can adjust, or do to increase the maximum file
> size? Or is there a newer kernel that may work?

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.

Kernel aspects aren't everything, also the glibc needs
to be tuned to match that kernel, but that is another story.

> Thanks,
> Keith Blankenship

/Matti Aarnio

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