On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 04:45:43PM -0600, Timm Murray wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 04:04:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > I converted my primary box to linux(Mandrake 7.2) and have found it 10X
> > > better than windows, and all this for free, wow!
> >
> > It's a great system, only two things I don't like about it:
> >
> > 1) Sucks at multimedia (I'm sure this could be improved)
> > 2) ext2's 2 gig file size limit is pathetic
>
> Pathetic? There aren't many (x86) file systems that don't have that
> limitation. Oh, and its not ext2, either. Ext2 can handle way more then
> that; its the Virtual File System (which all Linux fs drivers connect to)
> that has the limitation. I beleive there is no such limit (well, its much
> higher) on non-x86 archs.
This is do to the lack of use of the C type long long on 32-bit
systems. I know that gcc supports the use of long long (signed 64-bit
integer) and unsigned long long (unsigned 64-bit integer). However,
many other (especially old) compilers for 32-bit machines don't
support long long or unsigned long long.
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Travis Bemann
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