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Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)



On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:38:07PM -0800, Cassandra Lynette Ludwig wrote:
> My files are on the windows machine, I want to put them on my linux server 
> on a reiserfs partition as Linux cannot handle larger than 2gb files on an 
> ext2 filesystem.

Large files should work just fine on ext2 - the filesystem itself has
supported them for some years. You need to be running a 2.4 kernel in
order to have a VFS layer without the 32-bit limit on 32-bit
architectures. Not all tools will necessarily cope smoothly.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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