> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Mark Hounschell wrote:
>
> > While I'm here does anyone know anything about the 2 problems I
> > descibed above.
> >
> > 1. No LFS support in reiser ( I know this ain't a reiser list. Sorry)
> > 2. On an XFS fs, doing an ls in a directory that has a file larger then
> > 2+gb gives a message about to large to stat.
>
> If I remember correctly, on linux x86, i.e. 32-bit linux, the VFS layer
> is still 32 bit. this means that no matter XFS's or reisers limits, you are
> limited to 2gb for files. Redhat has released a fix to increase that limit
> to 4 or 8gb, I *think* in their "professional" kernels or whatever. I also
> believe that SGI's development team is working with kernel developers for a
> workaround so we can have a 64-bit VFS layer, thus truely being able to
> exploit XFS's (and other fs's) ability. I have heard from friends (very
> smart friends with nice boxes) that even old ext2's limit is not 2gb, that
> it's a VFS thing. they claim that on a 64-bit arch. they can exceed the 2gb
> file size limit no problem. Ponder that. :)
Not quite true, the vfs allows file sizes much larger than this, file offset
calculations and size fields are 64 bit. There are some limitations in other
areas such as a device size limitation of 2 Tbytes - which should not be a
practical problem for most people.
Steve
>
> RegEx
>
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