On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 03:58:20PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
Ext2 handles large files almost properly. (properly on 2.2 +
patches) NFSv3 handles large files but might be missing the
O_LARGEFILE check. I believe reiserfs went to at least 4Gig.
reiserfs 3.6.x under 2.4.x should go much higher unless i am reading
something wrong
<pause>
yup, it does.
as for NFS, I'm not sure how to pass O_LARGEFILE via the protocol and
since NFS isn't really POSIX like anyhow decided we might as well
just ingore it and have all sys_open calls for NFS look like
O_LARGEFILE was specified
move this check and also write/seek check into the VFS would make
sense; right now you can
f = open("blah",O_RDWR & ~O_LARGEFILE);
lseek(f,1024*1024*1024,SEEK_CUR);
lseek(f,1024*1024*1024,SEEK_CUR);
lseek(f,1024*1024*1024,SEEK_CUR);
write(f,"alan's beard",12);
close(f);
and create a file you cannot open again with the same application
--cw
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