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Article #35Re: Q: 2GB file limit in stable linux - treatment in development linux
From: Martin Lohner
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 00:00
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>>All, am I correct in assuming that the 2GB file limit in the ext2 fs
>>in Linux has been addressed in patch 2.1.9 (in file: fs/ext2/file.c
>>date: 12 Nov 1996)?
>
> No. I'm using a 2.5G partition since November, with kernel 2.0.x.
> The size limit was removed much earlier.
>
He is talking about filesize, not partitionsize.
>>If corrected, what is the current file size limit in the 2.1.xx
>>series?
>
Don't know.
> I don't think this matters. I't clearly beyond the sizes of hard disks
> for the next years...
>
What does not matter? In 3 years, there will be 50G harddisks.
>>And what is the most "stable" development system (oxymorons aside)
>>since the the removal of the 2GB limit?
>
> I'm using 2.0.30 without problems. However if you think 2.0.30 is too
> much of an alpha version, try 2.0.29.
He is asking about developmentkernels. He wants to know a more or less
stable 2.1.x kernel.
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