My VSplit program Alpha #11b has been released...

Chris Chiappa griffon+yahooq at s...
Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:15:18 -0400


On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 02:51:38PM +0100, Faye Pearson wrote:
> > ext3 has a 2gig file size limit. Modern linux kernels can get around the 2gig
> > limit in ext2, however (though many apps aren't sure what to do with files >
> > 2gig (eg. ftp, if I recall)).
> > This is one of the reasons I've not moved to any of the journaling file
> > systems in linux: file size limits are too restrictive yet.
> ReiserFS 3.6 (Kernel 2.4 version of Reiserfs) supports >2Gb files.
> XFS also supports large files.
ext3 on my machines has no problems with files > 2GB either. (2.4.18 / glibc
2.2.5). I haven't tested vsplit however.

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