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 19:59:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:58:41 -0400 Received: from [216.151.155.121] ([216.151.155.121]:63751 "EHLO belphigor.mcnaught.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:58:39 -0400 To: Tony Hoyle Cc: Fred , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: File System Limitations In-Reply-To: <01082316383301.12104@bits.linuxball> <9m41qd$290$1@sisko.my.home> <01082318132000.12319@bits.linuxball> <3B858F58.1000606@nothing-on.tv> From: Doug McNaught Date: 23 Aug 2001 19:58:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: Tony Hoyle's message of "Fri, 24 Aug 2001 00:18:48 +0100" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0806 (Gnus v5.8.6) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tony Hoyle writes: > Fred wrote: > > so why dos my filesystem have a 2 GB limit? > > Must I specify a large block size or some such when i format? > > i run 2.4.9 on redhat7.1 out of the box > > > > > Does it? Unless RH are using a seriously old glibc (which I doubt) > there's no 2GB limit any more. I just did: [doug@abbadon workspace]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1024k count=3072 3072+0 records in 3072+0 records out [doug@abbadon workspace]$ ls -l foo -rw-rw-r-- 1 doug doug 3221225472 Aug 23 20:01 foo [doug@abbadon workspace]$ -Doug -- Free Dmitry Sklyarov! http://www.freesklyarov.org/ We will return to our regularly scheduled signature shortly.