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SubjectRe: >2G files patch wanted
Hi,

On Fri, 31 Jul 1998 01:19:56 -0400, Allanah Myles <dossy@panoptic.com>
said:

> On 1998.07.30, Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> wrote:
>> It seems we need some way of handling files >2G. Could someone hack the
>> kernel to do so?

> Solaris has implemented this and called it their "largefile" support.
> Is that a POSIX-like thing or did they just invent it themselves?
> Is that an amenable way to provide "large file" support in Linux?

The LFS (Large File Standard) was developed with support from several of
the key Unix companies, so it's not a Sun-only thing by a long way. The
last time I looked it was at:

http://www.sas.com/standards/large.file/

Support is planned in Linux 2.3.

--Stephen

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