Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: ext2 file sizes | Date | 15 Sep 1999 13:34:04 -0700 |
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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.
____ david parsons \bi/ relative seek is a pretty old method. \/
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