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SubjectRe: VFS/ext2fs - large files on the Alpha (fails for 17GB+)
   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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