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 19:18:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:18:48 -0400 Received: from tmhoyle.gotadsl.co.uk ([195.149.46.162]:39943 "EHLO mail.cvsnt.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:18:33 -0400 Message-ID: <3B858F58.1000606@nothing-on.tv> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 00:18:48 +0100 From: Tony Hoyle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010817 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fred Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: File System Limitations In-Reply-To: <01082316383301.12104@bits.linuxball> <9m41qd$290$1@sisko.my.home> <01082318132000.12319@bits.linuxball> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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