Re: FileSystem Sizes
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:
> If I remember (off the top) correctly, lseek() is/was the limiting factor on
> filesystem sizes... At one time, this was 32bit, so max addressable
> filesystem size was 2GB.
>
> Has this changed? i.e. what is the max ext2 filesystem size?
Yes, it's changed. Max filesystem size is no longer limited (well, there
is a limit but you can't get a hard drive big enough to exceed it). The
llseek() call was added to provide manipulation of larger files and
filesystems.
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Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
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