Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:11:32 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: VFS/ext2fs - large files on the Alpha (fails for 17GB+) |
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:10:37 -0400 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
The problem is that off_t is a signed integer. Hence, we're limited to 2**31 bytes. It might be possible to kludge in support for 3GB using llseek, but I wouldn't guarantee that this would work before meditating deeply on the VM layer --- in case there's another 31-bit limit/assumption lurking somewhere else in the VM layer.
page->offset needs to be fixed as well, if you have not considered this already...
Later, David S. Miller davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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