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Subject: Re: [PATCH] add support for larger files in minix filesystem
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On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 09:37:20PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:

> If your physical media does not suffer from needing to keep blocks on the
> same disk cylinder (ie rotating rust) then the V7 file system is even
> smaller than the Minix one but also has the 2GB limit.

Keep in mind that v7 support comes along with sysvfs one, so the module
is quite likely bigger than in case of minixfs...