On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 12:42:00PM +0000, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>
> Where can I find good information resources on the changes to support
> large files (>2GB) in Linux 2.4. I'm interested in:
>
> - Information on specific file systems, especially Ext2, including new
> upper limits on lile sizes
It depends on the blocksize (specifically, on how much data you can
squeeze into the indirect blocks), but once you have a blocksize of
4k, the first limit you hit is actually the block device limit of 2TB.
> - Changes to the system call API to support large file sizes
Search for "large file summit" on google --- the new glibc implements
the LFS on top of the kernel's internal large file support.
--Stephen
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