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Re: 2GB filesize limit.

To: Chuck Rouillard <chuckr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 2GB filesize limit.
From: Bryan-TheBS-Smith <thebs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:10:52 -0500
Cc: Linux - XFS <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote:
> XFS itself breaks the 2GB filesize limit.  I will assume, for a
> moment, that the VFS in 2.4 has been changed to accomodate this with
> LFS?

Let me refraze that, I'm "assuming" that the VFS in 2.4 has been
changed so you can simply use 64-bit filesystems, like XFS, on
32-bit platforms and the LFS in the VFS (again, in kernel 2.4)
handles it all correctly.

-- TheBS

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