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Any way around the ext2 2GiB limit?



Mathew J. Brodeur <mbrodeur at nexttime.com> said:

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, E. Wiliam Horne wrote:

>> "...  there is a serious restriction in that a file in an ext2
>> filesystem on hardware
>> with 32-bit integers cannot be larger than 2 GiB".
>>
>> So, the question: is there a way around this, short of making multiple
>> TAR files?

>   I believe this limitation disappeared (or changed) in the 2.4 kernel.

[snip]

>   If 2.4 isn't an option, Google seems to indicate that there are (were?)
>projects to implement workarounds in 2.2.  This link looks promising:
>http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html

Thanks, I'll check it out. I'm putting this disk in to prepare for a 2.4
upgrade, so catch-22.

Bill




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