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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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