Re: [expert] Maximum file size

[Anton Graham]

Submitted 07-Sep-00 by Ellick Chan:
> 32-bit OS's typically have a 2 gb file size limit(2^31 why is it missing 
> 1 bit?), ext2 has that as well as Reiserfs currently. 

Because it's a signed long.  Setting the 32nd bit would make it a negative
number.


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