Re: VFS/ext2fs - large files on the Alpha (fails for 17GB+)

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
19 Aug 1998 07:32:15 GMT

Followup to: <19980819172418.A757@caffeine.ix.net.nz>
By author: Chris Wedgwood <chris@cybernet.co.nz>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> P.S. On the Intel, we are restricted to 2GB files because of mm
> considerations. But, since we have a 3/1 split, why isn't the
> maximum file size 3GB?
>

It's 2 GB due to signed 32-bit arithmetric.

-hpa

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