Re: Files > 2G on ext2 in 2.4.0?

Andreas Jaeger (aj@suse.de)
29 Jun 2000 13:08:35 +0200


>>>>> Mike A Harris writes:

> Does the 2.4.0 kernel support files > 2G on 32bit architectures
> using the ext2 or any other linux supported filesystem?

Yes for ext2.

> Someone is wanting to make tar files > 2G in Linux ia32 on ext2
> and it is failing. I told them it is a kernel limitation on
> ia32, and that I'd try and find out if 2.4.0 corrects this
> limitation.

But you need to recompile your glibc (use version 2.1.3) and probably
also tar for this.

Andreas

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