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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
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        Rick Stevens <rstevens@vitalstream.com>
Subject: Re: Big file support
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:34:26PM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> There are several filesystems which are 64-bit/large-file supporting,
> but also some which are inherently incapable to exceed 2G or 4G.
> 
> It looks like the LOOP driver lands in between -- it should be LFS
> capable, but it isn't.

Loop is LFS capable.  I know that we shipped LFS enabled loop utilities 
for 7.2, probably 7.1 as well.  They were missed in the first batch of 
LFS conversions, and several distributions are lagging behind in this 
area.

		-ben
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