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Re: Filesystemsize



On 24 Feb 1997, Dirk Bernhardt wrote:

> >>>>> Stefan Walder writes:
> 
> > does anyone know how big a ext2-filesystem can be?
> 
> >From /usr/src/linux/fs/ext2/CHANGES:
> 
> Changes from version 0.5 to version 0.5a
> ========================================
> [..]
> 	- Check that no data can be written to a file past the 2GB limit.
                                                ~~~~~~

ext2fs, like other file-systems seems to have a 2G per file limit, ie
each file has a 31 bit size value. I'm not sure how big a ext2fs file
system can be thought.

Jason


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