On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:30:36AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> The problem is not just a system-level one, but a filesystem-level
> one. Enabling 64 bits by default might be dangerous, because a DBA
> might think "oh, it supports largefiles by default" and therefore not
> notice that the filesystem itself is not mounted with largefile
> support. But I suspect that the developers would welcome autoconfig
> patches if someone offered them.
Are there any filesystems in common use (not including windows ones) that
don't support >32-bit filesizes?
Linux (ext2) I know supports by default at least to 2TB (2^32 x 512bytes),
probably much more. What about the BSDs? XFS? etc
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.
