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SubjectRe: what is the status of >2gig filesizes
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Nicholas J. Leon enscribed thusly:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 genanr@thumper2.emsphone.com wrote:

> # I'm was wonder what is the status of >2gig filesizes. how well is
> # it supported under Linux these days? FreeBSD has had it for a while and

> You mean like these?

> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hdc3 6017856 2716343 2989852 48% /usr2/nicholas
> /dev/hda4 5047847 3983163 803392 83% /usr2/local
> /dev/md0 2420541 9915 2285484 0% /usr/local

I think the problem is NOT in the filesystems per se. I have
several 9 Gig systems that are working just fine. If I remember correctly
the discussion a few months back involving the maintainer of some of
the file system utilities, much of the problem involved some critical
maintenance utilites such as e2fsck which don't properly handle filesystems
that large under certain circumstances. It may well crop up when the
files on the file systems start growing larger than 2 Gig that e2fsck
and such start having problems dealing with them. All of this is conjecture
and, as I said, I have numerous file systems in the 9 Gig range, but I
watch those file systems nervously any time they have to be cleaned!

> G'day!
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Nicholas J. Leon "Elegance Through Simplicity"
> nicholas@binary9.net - - http://mrnick.binary9.net
>
> 8 4 9 1 7 3 <-- what is the pattern?

Mike
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