Re: Maximum size of ext2 files on ia32 is?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
13 Oct 2001 16:29:30 -0700


Followup to: <3BC8C86D.4C48828C@sgi.com>
By author: L A Walsh <law@sgi.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hmmm. I have a server at work installed from RH7.1 running 2.4.4.
> I did a grep of many files into redirected into a file and that fails at
> 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.

-hpa

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