Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: >2GB files with x86 | Date | Thu, 5 Mar 1998 00:22:48 +0200 (EET) | From | Matti Aarnio <> |
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> So the latest kernels seem to allow >2GB files in ext2 on alpha, > but how about x86 ?
At the moment the VFS layer passes file offsets and sizes with variables of types: int, off_t, and long (somewhat inconsistently).
At x86 that means limiting to 32-bit SIGNED values. Tough.
There is work in progress to alter that.
> Stefan
/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@tele.fi>
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