On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 03:20:50PM +0100, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Is the 2 gig file size limit gone in the new 8.0 beta??????
>
> If my memory is ok, this is a limitation of ext2fs. Note I'm not sure at
> all.
No, it's a (g)libc and Kernel issue. And yes: the limit is gone :)
[root@mond data]# dd if=/dev/zero of=3Gig bs=1024 count=3000000
3000000+0 records in
3000000+0 records out
[root@mond data]# ls -l 3Gig
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3072000000 Mar 15 17:17 3Gig
[root@mond data]# uname -r
2.4.2-4mdksmp
[root@mond data]# rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.2.2-4mdk
[root@mond data]# mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620)
/dev/sda6 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/data type ext2 (rw)
However, using MidnightCommander ("mc") on this directory:
------------------------------------ Error -------------------------------------
File '3Gig' exists but can not be stat-ed: Value too large for defined data type
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:-))))
Christian
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