Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Feb 2002 04:47:35 -0800 | From | Stephen Samuel <> | Subject | Re: Big file support (emperical evidence) |
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I agree -- and I was actually surprised. On Tuesday I wrote a script that created some huge files on an ext3 filesystem, expecting it to die at 2GB, but it didn't die until I passed 8GB (and filled the partition). (( redhat 7.2 ))
Alan Cox wrote: >>A lot of the kernel supports big files already. The real problem is the >>fact that the primary Linux file system, ext3, does not. If you use some >>file system besides ext3, big files should work. > > This is incorrect information. Ext3 supports large files. Whoever told > you otherwise was wrong.
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