Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Aug 2000 17:07:57 +0200 | From | "Andi Kleen" <> | Subject | Re: 2GIG-file |
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On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 04:54:13PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > I've noticed that some of the FS drivers don't support files over 2GB > > > due to legacy VFS issues. NWFS is at 256 Terabytes per file on 2.4. > > > > 1Tb - think about the 32bit block numbers in ll_rw_blk > > On Linux 2.4 the actual limit is 16/32 Terabytes (4K/8K blocksize * > 32-bit block-number). I can support in NWFS 2.4.1 (next release) files
ll_rw_block always scales to 512 byte blocks currently, so the 1TB is independent of the block size. Fixing it requires changes to all block device drivers (or going to 64bit)
-Andi
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