Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: files bigger than 2 GB | From | Andreas Jaeger <> | Date | 12 Sep 2000 17:57:09 +0200 |
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>>>>> Arnaud Installe writes:
> First of all, thanks to all of you for your responses. :-) I was under > the impression 2.4 still didn't have large file support, as I seem to > recall ssize_t still was 32 bits. off64_t is the type you want to look at.
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:25:02PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> >>>>> Arnaud Installe writes: >> >> > Hello, >> > I need support for files larger than 2GB. What's the status for that ? >> > AFAIK neither 2.2 nor 2.4-test support that out of the box. Can anyone >> > point me to a good link for patches ? Apart from the kernel, does >> > anything else need changes for large file support ? >> >> 2.4.0test7 has all the LFS (large file support) in it. It will work >> on ext2 - but e.g. not on NFSv2.
> So how about ReiserFS ? And Coda ? The 2.2 version of ReiserFS as distributed with SuSE 7.0 doesn't support LFS. The 2.4 should - but better ask on the list. You need to find out for every file system. I have no information about coda.
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