Re: Files > 2G on ext2 in 2.4.0?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[e-mail]>
By author:    Andreas Jaeger <[e-mail]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> >>>>> 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.
> 

Not so.  I'm using glibc 2.1.2, tar 1.13.11 and gzip 1.2.4 straight
from the RedHat 6.1 distribution, and tar -z handles files > 2 GB just
fine.  The only reason for this, of course, is that tar was designed
to be used with streaming media (and in this case it is even operating
on a compressed stream fed through a pipe), thus it never seeks.

	-hpa

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