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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 04:47:35 -0800
From: Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com>
Organization: Just Another Radical
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Subject: Re: Big file support  (emperical evidence)
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I agree -- and I was actually surprised.  On Tuesday I wrote
a script that created some huge files on an ext3 filesystem, expecting
it to die at 2GB, but it didn't die until I passed 8GB (and filled
the partition). (( redhat 7.2 ))

Alan Cox wrote:
>>A lot of the kernel supports big files already.  The real problem is the
>>fact that the primary Linux file system, ext3, does not.  If you use some
>>file system besides ext3, big files should work.
> 
> This is incorrect information. Ext3 supports large files. Whoever told
> you otherwise was wrong.


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