On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:

> If I remember (off the top) correctly, lseek() is/was the limiting factor on
> filesystem sizes...  At one time, this was 32bit, so max addressable
> filesystem size was 2GB.
> 
> Has this changed?  i.e. what is the max ext2 filesystem size?

Yes, it's changed.  Max filesystem size is no longer limited (well, there
is a limit but you can't get a hard drive big enough to exceed it).  The
llseek() call was added to provide manipulation of larger files and
filesystems.

-- 
Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>                 http://www.gate.net/~storm/


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