Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:45:04 -0600 | From | Mike Eldridge <> | Subject | Re: Filesize limit on SMBFS |
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On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 04:19:47PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Nov 23, 2001 17:11 -0600, Mike Eldridge wrote: > > ext2 has a 2GB filesize limitation. > > Where do you get that idea from. I have created files up to 4TB (sparse > ones, of course) without problems. After that you start hitting bugs in > the VFS and ext2 _code_, but you should be able to have up to 16TB files > on a 4kB block ext2 fs. > > Please stop spreading misinformation. Maybe there is a 2GB limitation > in libc, or your tools, or in 2.2 ext2 _implementation_ (which is > fixed if you apply the LFS patch for ext2), but no such limit in the > design of ext2 itself.
oooh. i apologize. i remember reading in several different places that little tidbit i rattled off.
i stand (majorly) corrected.
-mike
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