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SubjectRe: breaking the 2Gigabyte limit on 32 bit arch of inode->i_size (off_t vs loff_t)


On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> >anything along the lines of ext2 on such sizes. Think of the time fsck
>
> I am not talking about ext2 infact.
>
> >will take. So I *seriously* doubt that it goes beyond the academical
> >exercise. Moreover, anything beyond 16G is going to have a pretty complex
> >internal structure and most likely will prefer to live on a separate
> >device.
>
> You mean using two disks, one for the metadata and one for the data?
> That's not the problem according to me, because hardware raid will be able
> to scale well and do that in hardware.

Nope. Bare /dev/sd<foo> and database taking care of the internal
structure.


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