Re: Volume Managers in Linux
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 6 Nov 1998 14:20:43 +0000 (GMT)
> stopped using Linux due to the 2GB file limit. I have tar files over 2GB
> routinetly. I've been pretty much forced to switch to Solaris. Now, my
> question is, does UFS supporting writing to the disks, because, Solaris UFS
> supports files over 2GB. Could we make a UFS root partition?
We don't need to. ext2fs supports over 2Gig files. What doesn't is the
core vfs layer for 32bit machines. 2.1.x on an Alpha will let you have
huge ext2 files happily
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