Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 29 Jul 1998 14:09:37 -0800 | | From | Steven Roberts <> | | Subject | Re: 2.1.108: file sizes > 2GB with ext2? |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > Carlos Carvalho <carlos@fisica.ufpr.br> writes: > > > I need a file bigger than 2GB, but apparently there's a limit of > > 2147479552 bytes for the file size :-( Is this correct? Is there an > > option I can use to have larger files? > > > > I've seen this as a wishlist for 2.2, but haven't found anything else... > > Only way is to use a block device directly, or switch to a 64bit platform.
Seomthing just hit me on this, does this mean ext2 partitions made on a 64-bit arch aren't compatible with those made on a 32-bit arch (or is it just a in running kernel sizeof(long) limitation)?
Am shuffling some servers around and was about to move a drive from an intel box to an alpha...
Steve
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