> I can quite happily create filseystems over 2gig - but not > files. Would adding support for very large files be easy - or is this > a problem with libc and lseek etc?
The main problem is a 2Gig file is 32bits of space (including a sign bit). So all the 32bit file offsets etc all break. The alpha ought to cope a bit better.
There is a 64bit API but Linux doesn't yet support it.