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

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
19 Aug 1998 12:47:24 GMT

Followup to: <35DAA119.86845AD6@osa.de>
By author: Daniel Pittman <danielp@osa.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Well, not totally. There is the posiblity that the Intel engineers
> offered us for addressing more than one single 32 bit space:
> segmentation.
>

Nope, segmentation gets mapped onto a single 4 GB linear space.

-hpa

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