Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 17:13:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 17:13:15 -0400 Received: from rj.SGI.COM ([204.94.215.100]:11686 "EHLO rj.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 17:13:10 -0400 Message-ID: <3BC8AE84.48808982@sgi.com> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 14:13:40 -0700 From: L A Walsh Organization: Trust Technology, Core Linux, SGI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, en-US, en-GB, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Maximum size of ext2 files on ia32 is? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I was hesitantly and pleasantly surprised when I was copying across an unmounted 8G unmounted file partition via dump to an NFS partition. Until August, regular backups splitted the dump image (used the "-M" flag to dump) to into 4 2G files. My backup disk died so it took some time to replace it and just got around to doing so (I know, running w/out backups is like unprotected sex, but lets ignore that critique). So I startup dump and it produced 1 9G file. I was a bit concerned that NFS had a screwed up mapping of the local file, but the server confirmed the file size. 'du' confirmed it was 8.8G, I even unmounted, forced an fsck on it and remounted -- still 8.8G. I was allocating special partitions to backup non-dump compatible partitions (win) to the server but find now they can be backed up into a single 8G+ file. I notice some utils from my latest suse72 install (stat) don't know about it either: > du -sh * 14M BOOT_101101.dump 8.8G HOME_101201.dump.001 ... > stat HOME_101201.dump.001 HOME_101201.dump.001: Value too large for defined data typ So, I have been a bit busy and distracted and all, but when did large file support go in for the i386 arch and what is the new max files size? Congratulations and great work for addressing that limitation! Linda p.s. -- I hope this is a real feature and not considered a bug...:-) -- - _ - _ - _ - _ - _ - _ - _ - L A Walsh, law at sgi dot com | Senior Engineer 01-650-933-5338 | Trust Technology, Core Linux, SGI - 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/