Any way around the ext2 2GiB limit?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I had the same problem when backing up my wife's system. Although I 
am now on a 2.4 kernel, when I bought my wife a new system, I decided 
to use rsysnc and just maintain a mirror of her system.
On 30 Oct 2001, at 15:24, Matthew J. Brodeur wrote:

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> On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, E. Wiliam Horne wrote:
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> > "...  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.
> On a machine with 2.4.9:
> [root at localhost root]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test-file bs=1M count=4096
> 4096+0 records in
> 4096+0 records out
> [root at localhost root]# ls -lh
> - -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         4.0G Oct 30 12:07 test-file
> 
>    On another machine I managed to create a file of ~70GB while
> benchmarking the disks.
>    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
> 
> 
> - -- 
>      -Matt
> 
> No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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