Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 23 Nov 2001 20:00:53 +0800 (SGT) | From | Jeff Chua <> | Subject | Re: Filesize limit on SMBFS |
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You may want to try using glibc 2.2.x, but then you may fail to compile many other codes. I tried it once, and managed to get >2GB file, but had to revert back to 2.1.3 because 2.2.x broke compiling other codes. That was a few months back.
Thanks, Jeff [ jchua@fedex.com ]
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Marcelo Borges Ribeiro wrote:
> I have fat32 partition, but the problem isnŽt the size of partition it is > 8GB. The problem is that if you want to > create a cpio backup of a linux system 3.5GB (I did that to reformat a ext2 > to a reiserfs) to an available fat32 space, in my case the backup size is > allways 2GB and when I tried to extract back I saw "unexpected end of file". > So I thought it was that famous kernel limitation of 2GB under any kind of > partition, but i was informed that fat has this limitation too. So the > kernel may suport files bigger than 2GB (I really donŽt know, I just know > that in my case with fat32 it did not and I saw this too with some oracle > databases that could not be used when they grow and reach 2GB, may be a > library problem too). > > ThatŽs all. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeff Chua" <jchua@fedex.com> > To: "Andreas Dilger" <adilger@turbolabs.com> > Cc: "Marcelo Borges Ribeiro" <marcelo@datacom-telematica.com.br>; "Tyler > BIRD" <birdty@uvsc.edu>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> > Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 12:35 AM > Subject: Re: Filesize limit on SMBFS > > > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > > > VFAT does have a 2GB limit, AFAIK, but I could be wrong. > > > > Use "mkdosfs -F32" or use msdos fdisk,format to get >2GB. > > > > I'm using 3GB for VFAT partition. > > > > Jeff. > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > >
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