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Subject: Re: Maximum size of ext2 files on ia32 is?
To: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 02:30:40 +0100 (BST)
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> > 2G.  But my version of 7.2 Suse doesn't.  I take it this is a recent update
> > to the file utils?
> 
> No, it's a matter of if the distributor, who compiled fileutils,
> compiled with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 or not.
> 

Well grep isnt actually gnu fileutils but the point is mostly valid. grep
also uses mmap so there are some other minor points of consideration
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