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SubjectRe: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..


On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

> From: miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
> Date: 17 Dec 1999 09:25:59 GMT
>
> Hmm I would have thought that it's way easier to do it now,
> since LFS is getting integrated as well.
>
> Is LFS support getting integrated for 2.3? I would really like that to
> be the case; two of the most often requrested features are support for >
> 2GB files on ia32 platforms, and support for 32 bit uids.

Check the code ;-) Page cache is indexed by offset in pages, so the limit
is 8Tb. And even with 4Kb blocks ext2 support can't support more than
about 4Tb per file...


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