On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Mark Lehrer wrote:
>1) does linux 2.4 support >2GB files with ext2 on rh6.2 by just loading
> the new kernel?
"yes"
I'm doing it already (by accident at first)
A lot of things will be unable to open files >2G in size (like gzip) and
the superblock will not have the magic bit set for LARGE_FILES (e2fsck
complaned at the first chance :-)) I'm not sure what will happen if I
try loading a 2.2 kernel :-( [not likely unless something Real Bad Happens.]
Could you just recompile these utilities with the 2.4 headers and
expect them to start working correctly?
Mark
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