Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2001 02:56:10 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: ramfs problem... (unlink of sparse file in "D" state) |
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On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 03:35:32PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > BTW Al: We have another general vfs/fs problem to handle - which > is exceeding max file sizes on limited file systems. Pretty much > nobody is getting it right. Ext2 can be tricked to go past the > limit, sys5 1k sits there emitting printk messages etc. > > Which filesystems have limits other than 2^31 bytes?
Plenty. ext2, for one - e.g. with 4Kb blocks you have limit at 0x4010040c000 for files and 0x100000000 for directories. With 1Kb blocks the limit for files is 0x404043000. Notice that the latter is not a multiple of page size on Alpha.
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