From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264891AbTLFAo5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 19:44:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264896AbTLFAo5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 19:44:57 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:11207 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264891AbTLFAo4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 19:44:56 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: Large-FAT32-Filesystem Bug Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 01:44:53 +0100 Message-ID: References: <3FD0555F.5060608@gmx.de> <20031205160746.GA18568@codepoet.org> <3FD0C64D.5050804@gmx.de> <20031205221051.GA3244@codepoet.org> <20031205224529.GS29119@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wZF7lPtB9/76uJu0LXEhrRYy5L0= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andreas Schwab writes: >>>> No problem. I put this patch together quite a while ago for >>>> my own use and never got around to sending it in. It removes >>>> a number of artificial fat32 limits, and allows files up to 4GB, >>> >>> Why only 4gb? >> >> That's what the 32 in fat32 means. > > No, it doesn't. It's about the number of bits in a cluster number, thus > the size of the filesystem. And that 32 is actually 28. OK, my mistake, but there is a 32 as in file size, right? -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se