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Re: Filesystemsize



On 24-Feb-97 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.
                                                 ^^^^

That says 'file' not 'filesystem.'  Last I remember, no file could be over 2GB,
but filesystems up to 4TB are possible.

Paul

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Paul Rightley                     DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940
Los Alamos National Laboratory    Los Alamos, NM 87545
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Email: Paul Rightley <pright@lanl.gov>
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