Re: Vmware and XFS

[Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 at 5:24pm, Adam H. Pendleton wrote

> I am wondering now that I have gone to XFS, if it is possible to extend a
> guest operating system partition in Vmware past the traditional 32-bit (2GB)
> limitation.  If so, how?
>
The 2GB limit doesn't exist in ext2 either -- it was there due to
limitations in glibc and some other bits.  Most recent distros include
large file support.

To take advantage of this, an applications needs to compiled with the
proper flags.  And for that, of course, you'll need to talk to VMware.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University