Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:38:15 +0300 | From | Matti Aarnio <> | Subject | Re: ext2 file sizes |
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On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:48:07AM -0400, Blankenship, Keith wrote: > I am having some difficulty with the ext2 file systems. I need to generate a > file that will be > 5 Gigabytes, and there appears to be a file size cap at > approximately 2 Gig. I am running what appears to be a version 2.0.36 > Kernel. Is there anything I can adjust, or do to increase the maximum file > size? Or is there a newer kernel that may work?
In some soon upcoming 2.3.18ac* version there will be Large-File-Summit code in it, and with it you will be able to exceed the 2 GB filesize limit at 32-bit systems.
Kernel aspects aren't everything, also the glibc needs to be tuned to match that kernel, but that is another story.
> Thanks, > Keith Blankenship
/Matti Aarnio
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