Re: what is the status of >2gig filesizes

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:06:16 +0200 (CEST)

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On 10 Aug 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <19980810133119.55273@thumper2.emsphone.com>
> By author: genanr@thumper2.emsphone.com
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > I'm was wonder what is the status of >2gig filesizes. how well is
> > it supported under Linux these days? FreeBSD has had it for a while and
> > with the upcoming releases of several Databases on Linux it will become a
> > roadblock if it has not been addressed well. Thanks
>
> I think it's on the list for 2.3.

IIRC, Eric Biederman is working on this (or it's somewhere
high on his list).

Rik.
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