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SubjectRe: 2GIG-file
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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