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    SubjectRe: ext2 file sizes
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    In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.95.990915150738.775A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>,
    Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote:
    >On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Blankenship, Keith wrote:
    >
    >> I am having some difficulty with the ext2 file systems. I need to generate a
    >> file that will be > 5 Gigabytes, and there appears to be a file size cap at
    >> approximately 2 Gig. I am running what appears to be a version 2.0.36
    >> Kernel. Is there anything I can adjust, or do to increase the maximum file
    >> size? Or is there a newer kernel that may work?
    >>
    >
    >Note that on a 32-bit machine, toff_t, used as fpos_t, for file offsets,
    >i.e., lseek, is unsigned 32 bits. You will not be able to access such a
    >file on a 32-bit machine.

    Sure you will; either via the traditional start-at-the-front and
    read 'til you're finished method, or relative lseek, or llseek.


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    david parsons \bi/ relative seek is a pretty old method.
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