> > 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
>
Okay, if the core vfs layer doesn't handle over 2 GB, how does mke2fs make
a filesystem on a > 2GB partition? (or does this not work?). For that
matter, couldn't fdisk have potential problems with extended partitions
that are beyond 2 GB? (it has to write the extended partition map out
there).
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