Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261898AbVD1JIv (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 05:08:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261154AbVD1JIo (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 05:08:44 -0400 Received: from smtp.ilimburg.nl ([195.35.190.136]:42917 "EHLO mailrelay.ilimburg.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261898AbVD1JIP (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 05:08:15 -0400 Message-ID: <4270A7F3.3020707@tuxproject.info> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:08:03 +0200 From: Iwan Sanders User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: File and partition sizes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 560 Lines: 20 Hi, I am examining the large file support in Linux. A couple of questions remained unanswered that's why I thought to ask the experts ;-) I was wondering what the current size limitation of a partition is and what kernel versions will allow files larger then 4 GB and why they do that. Regards, Iwan Sanders - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/