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SubjectRe: ext2 file sizes
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:48:07AM -0400, Blankenship, Keith wrote:
> > I am having some difficulty with the ext2 file systems. I need to generate a
> > file that will be > 5 Gigabytes, and there appears to be a file size cap at
> > approximately 2 Gig. I am running what appears to be a version 2.0.36
> > Kernel. Is there anything I can adjust, or do to increase the maximum file
> > size? Or is there a newer kernel that may work?
> >
>
> You will have to run another OS like FreeBSD for this to work - or
> wait for Linux to catch up. Which will probably take some time.

I'd say no on both claims here.

a.) (most simple solution) Get an Alpha, Sparc64 or Power64 (not PPC)
based machine
b.) I don't believe Matti Aarnio's patches are too far away...

Of course, at least for video & audio, using Raw-IO would probably be a
third alternative.

/David
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