Actually, I dont beleive the limit is imposed by ext2. It is actually imposed by the vfs (virtual file system) using a 32 bit offset address. Several *nixs get around this by pseudo mapping a long long (thats a 64 bit offset). Greisberger Christophe wrote:
There are patches for ext2fs... but since I don't need it, I didn't keep any links on it. Just look around :-)
-----Message d'origine----- De : Herman Knief [mailto:herman@knief.net] Envoye : Donnerstag, 04. Mai 2000 18:54 A : Jon Pennington Cc : suse-linux-e@suse.com Objet : Re: [SLE] Where's the 2GB limitation: MS Backup or Samba?
Well, the bad news is... Reiser also only supports 2GB files. I just tried it, and it died at 2147483647 bytes... 1 short of 2GB.
- Herman
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jon Pennington wrote:
->>On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 07:46:48PM -0500, Jerry Kreps wrote: ->>> On Wed, 03 May 2000, Christopher D. Reimer wrote: ->>> > From: "Herman Knief"
->>> > > ->>> > > If you're using ext2 as your file system, then that's your 2GB limitation. ->>> > > ->>> > > - Herman ->>> > ->>> > My hard drive is partitioned as ext2, and that sucks if there's a 2GB file ->>> > limitation. Any alternatives? ->>> > ->>> > Thanks! ->>> ->>> Why put all your GB in one partition? ->> ->>It's not an issue of the size of a partition, it's the issue of the ->>size of a single file. ext2 simply cannot write a file that's larger ->>than 2gb in size, and the only alternatives at this time are ReiserFS ->>or ext3. Reiser seems to be a good alternative, and I know several ->>people running it in both workstation and server environments. ext3 is ->>not even ready for a public beta yet. ->> ->>I hope this clarifies things. ->> ->>-- ->>-=|JP|=- ->>Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) ->>jpennington@atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com /\\ ->>Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 x121 _\_V ->> ->>6D04 39E0 CAE9 9ADA 2CA3 2EBE 898A 6C37 CA1E A29C ->> ->>-- ->>To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com ->>For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com ->>Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ ->> -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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