Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:04:24 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: Ext2fs file sizes |
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Nigel Jacob wrote:
> My understanding is that t ext2fs has a filesize limitation of >2GB. Is this true? Is this a tunable parameter modifiable via the ext2fs >api or somewhere else?
Short, no ext2 has never had a 2G filesize limitation.
Long: The VFS layer on 64 bit machines has always allowed filesizes larger than 2G, however on 32 bit machines, the VFS has limited it to 2G, so it isn't a limitation of the filesystem at hand, but rather of the VFS. As of sometime in the 2.3.x development series, this has changed, and the 2.4 kernels will no longer have this restriction. Using files > 2G on 32 bit systems however will require several components in the system to be upgraded including glibc, and likely any applications which will use files larger than 2G.
There are likely some teensy innaccuracies in the above, but it is more or less correct. I'm sure someone will fine tune it with more accurate details for you though.
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