On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, David Brodbeck wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bob Puff@NLE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > You sure about that? I'm pretty sure I've had >2gb files on > > my ext3 drives, > > 2.4.x kernel. > > RedHat Linux 7.0 with all current RedHat bugfixes and glibc upgrades. > Custom-compiled 2.4.17 kernel with ext2/ext3 ACL patches. On an ext2 > partition: > > [root@bigbox /export]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test.temp bs=1k count=3000000 > 3000000+0 records in > 3000000+0 records out > [root@bigbox /export]# ls -l test.temp > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3072000000 Dec 10 11:06 test.temp > > > I think the ext2/ext3 2 gig limit is just a common misconception.
The 2 GB limit definitely applies to ext2 (certainly on Slackware 8 or SuSE 7.3 platforms) and I thought the same would have applied to ext3 as it's an extension of ext2? Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
