Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2G file size limitation question | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 12 Jan 1998 13:03:51 +0100 |
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Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@tele.fi> writes:
|> Chip Salzenberg wrote: |>> According to Theodore Y. Ts'o: |>> > If the VFS layer can handle 64-bits, we can make the ext2 structure |>> > handle 64-bits. |>> |>> I wasn't going to say anything, but: I'm currently working on making |>> the VFS and paging code handle files larger than 2G. So if anyone |>> else has in mind to do this, please talk to me and/or wait for me to |>> do the hard work. :-)
|> Fine, but at least with EXT2, once the VFS is 64-bit, there |> appears a surprise from rlimit data, which is defined as |> "long", that is, signed 32-bits with 32-bit machines...
You should take a look at the LFS support in glibc 2.1. There are 64 bit variants of every syscall that is effected. They just need to be implemented in the kernel.
-- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de completely different" schwab@gnu.org
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