From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:41:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:41:00 -0400 Received: from [209.38.98.99] ([209.38.98.99]:36481 "EHLO srvr201.castmark.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:40:49 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Fred To: Tony Hoyle Subject: Re: File System Limitations Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 18:40:59 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <01082316383301.12104@bits.linuxball> <01082318132000.12319@bits.linuxball> <3B858F58.1000606@nothing-on.tv> In-Reply-To: <3B858F58.1000606@nothing-on.tv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01082318405901.12319@bits.linuxball> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org glibc-2.2.2-10 dd if=/dev/zero of=./tgb count=4000 bs=1M created file of 2147483647 bytes [root@bits /a5]# dd if=/dev/zero of=./tgb count=4000 bs=1M File size limit exceeded (core dumped) [root@bits /a5]# is glibc part of gcc? where do i find glibc? (I've recently compiled gcc-3.00, but won't install cause it breaks kernel compilations). TIA Fred _________________________________________________ On Thursday 23 August 2001 06:18 pm, Tony Hoyle wrote: > Fred wrote: > > so why dos my filesystem have a 2 GB limit? > > Must I specify a large block size or some such when i format? > > > > i run 2.4.9 on redhat7.1 out of the box > > Does it? Unless RH are using a seriously old glibc (which I doubt) > there's no 2GB limit any more. > > Some older applications don't work with it AFAIK... anything bundled > with a modern distro shouldn't have any problems. > > Tony > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/