On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 05:15:52PM +0200, Arnaud Installe wrote:
> First of all, thanks to all of you for your responses.  :-)  I was under
> the impression 2.4 still didn't have large file support, as I seem to
> recall ssize_t still was 32 bits.

        The LFS specification defined  loff_t for 64-bit offset value.
        The   ssize_t  will not change.

> On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:25:02PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > >>>>> Arnaud Installe writes:
> > 
> >  > Hello,
> >  > I need support for files larger than 2GB.  What's the status for that ?  
> >  > AFAIK neither 2.2 nor 2.4-test support that out of the box.  Can anyone
> >  > point me to a good link for patches ?  Apart from the kernel, does
> >  > anything else need changes for large file support ?
> > 
> > 2.4.0test7 has all the LFS (large file support) in it.  It will work
> > on ext2 - but e.g. not on NFSv2.
> 
> So how about ReiserFS ?  And Coda ?

        ReiserFS: Propably works
        EXT2:     works
        Coda:     Not (local cache issues, protocol is ok.)
        UFS:      works (although not complete vs. O_LARGEFILE flag use.)
        NFSv2:    protocol is limited to 2G-1
        NFSv3:    protocol is ok, not sure of Linux implementation status.
        SAMBA:    works (but linux kernel SMBFS might be another story)

> Ok, thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Arnaud Installe                                     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> "If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time
>  serving it..."
> -- Marion Zimmer Bradley, _The Forbidden Tower_

/Matti Aarnio
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