Summary: 2.5.1 and files greater than 2GB

From: Thomas Lester (tlester@spain.iakom.com)
Date: Wed Sep 09 1998 - 22:06:15 CDT


Thanks to Michael Shao, Paul Collison, Grant Beattie, Danny Johnson and several
others.

The answer is that 2.5.1 has a 2GB limit and 2.6 has 1 TB. As for NFS, on 2.6
you can mount with the largefile option to support large files in NFS.

Thanks,
Thomas

Original:

> Ok... I asked a question about NFS mount and files bigger than 2GB and I have
>
> had a couple of replies stating that 2.5.1 can't handle files over 2Gigs but
> 2.6
> can. And I had a couple of replies stating that neither can handle over 2GB'
> s.
>
> Can someone clear this up with a definate?
>
> Can 2.5.1 handle > 2GB?
> Can 2.6 handle > 2GB?

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