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SubjectRe: super quick >2GB question
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Mark Lehrer wrote:
>1) does linux 2.4 support >2GB files with ext2 on rh6.2 by just loading
> the new kernel?

"yes"

I'm doing it already (by accident at first)

A lot of things will be unable to open files >2G in size (like gzip) and
the superblock will not have the magic bit set for LARGE_FILES (e2fsck
complaned at the first chance :-)) I'm not sure what will happen if I
try loading a 2.2 kernel :-( [not likely unless something Real Bad Happens.]

--Ricky



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