Re: Big file support

Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:22:24 -0500


On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:34:26PM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> There are several filesystems which are 64-bit/large-file supporting,
> but also some which are inherently incapable to exceed 2G or 4G.
>
> It looks like the LOOP driver lands in between -- it should be LFS
> capable, but it isn't.

Loop is LFS capable. I know that we shipped LFS enabled loop utilities
for 7.2, probably 7.1 as well. They were missed in the first batch of
LFS conversions, and several distributions are lagging behind in this
area.

-ben
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