Re: stat64 for over 2TB file returned invalid st_blocks

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Mon Dec 05 2005 - 08:33:55 EST


On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 01:11 -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> I don't know the exact specs of NFS v2 and v3, but I doubt they can have
> single files larger than 2TB.

The NFSv3 protocol supports file lengths up to and including 2^64,
however on 32-bit Linux clients, we're limited by the page cache's
inability to actually address more than 16TB.

Cheers,
Trond

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/