Re: Ext2fs file sizes

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@zmailer.org)
Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:36:29 +0300

On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 11:25:34AM -0400, Nigel Jacob wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> My understanding is that t ext2fs has a filesize limitation of
> 2GB. Is this true? Is this a tunable parameter modifiable via the ext2fs
> api or somewhere else?

No, the filesystem itself goes trivially up to terabytes, but
Linux pre 2.4 at 32-bit machines just doesn't support anything
over 2^31-1 bytes (that 2 GB).

> Cheers,
> Nigel.

/Matti Aarnio

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