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SubjectRe: Ext2fs file sizes
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Nigel Jacob wrote:

> My understanding is that t ext2fs has a filesize limitation of
> 2GB. Is this true?

No. ext2 itself limits file sizes to ~4TB when using a 4KB blocksize. Of
course on 32 bit platforms you're limited to a max 2TB filesystem size.
The 2GB limitation on 32 bit platforms is due to limitations in the VFS of
kernels prior to 2.4.

> Is this a tunable parameter modifiable via the ext2fs
> api or somewhere else?

Either use a 64 bit machine, a 2.4 kernel, or apply one of the LFS patches
to 2.2. Several vendors ship LFS enabled 2.2 kernels already (Red Hat in
the Enterprise Edition, and SuSE does as well iirc).

-ben


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