On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 12:06:17AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 2.2.18pre17aa1 allows anybody to open a file larger than 2G (that seems not to
> be completly in sync with the specs) but it has all the necessary runtime
> checks during read/write. Just search for O_LARGEFILE in the lfs patch. That
> needs to be forward ported to 2.4.x.
2.4 nfsd should already use O_LARGEFILE, I submitted a patch for it some
time ago and Linus included it.
It doesn't do the >2GB checking for v2, so a v2 client could in theory write
a 4GB-1 file.
-Andi
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