Re: Maximum size of ext2 files on ia32 is?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 14 Oct 2001 02:30:40 +0100 (BST)

> > 2G. But my version of 7.2 Suse doesn't. I take it this is a recent update
> > to the file utils?
>
> No, it's a matter of if the distributor, who compiled fileutils,
> compiled with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 or not.
>

Well grep isnt actually gnu fileutils but the point is mostly valid. grep
also uses mmap so there are some other minor points of consideration
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