From: Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>
To: John Weber <weber@nyc.rr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext2 2GB Limit?
Date: 23 Aug 2001 11:38:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pu9meqgy.fsf@belphigor.mcnaught.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B851EE9.80406@nyc.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: John Weber's message of "Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:19:05 -0400"
John Weber <weber@nyc.rr.com> writes:
> Is the 2GB limit on files for ext2 only true for linux 2.2.x on intel?
Well, for large files on Intel, you need 2.4.x (or 2.2 with LFS
patches) plus a reasonably recent glibc, plus utilities compiled
properly.
So you're generally right, but there are some caveats.
-Doug
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-23 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-23 15:19 John Weber
2001-08-23 15:28 ` Andreas Jaeger
2001-08-23 15:34 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-08-23 15:38 ` Doug McNaught [this message]
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