From: Iwan Sanders <iwan.sanders@tuxproject.info>
To: Kevin Krieser <kkrieser@lcisp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What kernel versions will allow files larger than 4 GB?]
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:57:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41D3C2EA.2020206@tuxproject.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041230011239.F24D310E984@suse9.kkrieser.homelinux.org>
Kevin Krieser wrote:
Hi Kevin, thanks for replying!
>There was support for large files back in the 2.2 days.
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Do you happen to know how large the maximum file size was then? Are
there some kernel specifications I can look into,
also for the more recent kernels?
>And ext2 and 3 have supported it for quite some time.
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I thought that the maximum file size a file system can handle is
independent of the maximum file size the kernel can handle?
>The big issues after kernel support was GLIBC support. And even with GLIBC
>support, the application needs to be compiled with explicit large file
>support. Main reason it isn't the default is to avoid bugs. Just think of
>applications that use read/seek/write, etc. If they just used int for
>offsets, etc, they would break on large files, which is why extra calls were
>made to support large files.
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>
Going to look into the GLIBC support, thank you. Is there a list or
something that shows the maximum file sizes for the recent kernels?
>As for filesystems, ext2, ext3, reiserfs, nfs, smbfs (though you have to
>enable a special option for it on mounting), xfs, jfs, just to name a few.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-
>>owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Iwan Sanders
>>Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 5:45 PM
>>To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>>Subject: What kernel versions will allow files larger than 4 GB?]
>>
>>Hi people I'm trying to figure this out but can't seem to find any info.
>>
>>So could someone help me with this question: What kernel versions will
>>allow files larger than 4 GB? What filesystems?
>>
>>ps I am new to the linux kernel development is there a specification of
>>the various kernel versions?
>>
>>Greets,
>>
>>Iwan Sanders
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2004-12-30 8:57 ` Iwan Sanders [this message]
2004-12-29 23:45 What kernel versions will allow files larger than 4 GB?] Iwan Sanders
2004-12-30 0:05 ` Michelle Konzack
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