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

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:19:02 +0100 (BST)

> It depends what sort of hacks are required for >32-bit files sizes on
> intel anyhow. I say, if it makes things yuck elsewhere, then we
> shouldn't do it.

See smugfs if you want to know whats involved for doing all but mmap()
support. Its actually nothing like as bad as I had expected.

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