Re: GLUG: Is this true?

["smitty" <smitty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 
> > Heard an interesting comment that your average 32 bit *ix is limited to
> > a file size of 2 GB, whereas a lot of the 64 bit flavors do not have
> > this problem (such as HP).
> 
> FreeBSD (nor any of the BSDs) don't have this limitation, and the
> previous limit of 4TB was overcome in 1997.
> 
> Practical maximum of 8/16TB filesystems with 4TB maximum file size (on the
> default block size, and a theoretical, but impractical and untested, limit
> of 128TB file size on bigger block sizes.)
> 
> Not bad for a filesystem designed before some of us were born.
> 
> > Any comments? If this is true then me thinks my opinion is about to
> > change some what :(
> 
> I've searched, but can't find when this problem was overcome.  If you
> search for "2gb file size limit linux" on google and friends, it'll have
> patches for kernels before the fix was applied (at least, I'm pretty sure
> it was applied, but noone awake on IRC #linux either runs Linux or knows
> about the limit).
> 
> Neil


It was true, not anymore, I remember this because people were 
happy at its fixing (not to long ago - 6 months?)

Oh yeah benjamin you can stop doubting linux now...

Liam
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