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* vfat large file support
@ 2001-05-17  2:00 Felix von Leitner
  2001-05-17  2:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Felix von Leitner @ 2001-05-17  2:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

I can't copy a file larger than 2 gigs to my vfat partition.
What gives?  2.4.4-ac5 kernel.  My cp copies 2 gigs and then aborts.

  $ echo foo >> file_on_vfat_partition

causes the shell to become unresponsive and consume lots of CPU time.

Felix

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* Re: vfat large file support
  2001-05-17  2:00 vfat large file support Felix von Leitner
@ 2001-05-17  2:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: H. Peter Anvin @ 2001-05-17  2:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Followup to:  <20010517040000.A22911@convergence.de>
By author:    Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I can't copy a file larger than 2 gigs to my vfat partition.
> What gives?  2.4.4-ac5 kernel.  My cp copies 2 gigs and then aborts.
> 
>   $ echo foo >> file_on_vfat_partition
> 
> causes the shell to become unresponsive and consume lots of CPU time.
> 

VFAT doesn't support files larger than 2 GB.

	-hpa
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