From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 07:14:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 07:14:23 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:42504 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 07:14:16 -0400 Subject: Re: "oversized" files To: yoda_2002@yahoo.com (Aaron Smith) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:15:19 +0100 (BST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010715212006.A408@jacana.dyn.dhs.org> from "Aaron Smith" at Jul 15, 2001 09:20:07 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I have a file that is approximately 3.25GB and my system keeps bitching about "Value too large for defined data type." Is there any way to stop this? Since I'm sure you're wondering why I have a file that large, I'm using it via loopback as my MP3 partition, so I can remove it fairly quick if the need should ever arise. You need a 2.4 kernel and you need to be using NFSv3 to handle files >2Gb