2 Gb File Size Limit ?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:37:16 -0700, Shashi Bhusan Patra wrote:

> Kevin Krieser wrote:
> 
> >But do you have any files over 4 GB?
> >  
> >
> oh you mean any file whose size is 4GB+ ?? NO, certainly not. that is 
> not directly possible on a 32 bit system.

That's a wrong assumption. 32-bit CPU registers do not imply that you
could not implement 64-bit (or larger) file seek pointers. The limitation
is the file-system implementation. See bottom of the following page about
an overview of current Linux filesystems:
http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html

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