On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:47:06 +0100, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 09:23:49AM +0100, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > > I don't remember having a 2GiB filesize limit anywhere near, but the old > > extfs. What am I missing here? <snip useful research> > I checked the newfs_ext2fs manpage and it says the following: > > -- > -O filesystem-format > Select the filesystem-format. > > 0 `GOOD_OLD_REV'; this option is primarily used to > build root file systems that can be understood by > old or dumb firmwares for bootstrap. (default) > 1 `DYNAMIC_REV'; various extended (and sometimes > incompatible) features are enabled (though not all > features are supported on OpenBSD). Currently > only the following features are supported: > ...<some cut>... > LARGEFILE Enable files larger than 2G > bytes. > -- > > so perhaps you need to turn on this "LARGEFILE" feature at newfs time > somehow...
Indeed. It seems my ignorance and impudent style didn't get me anywhere (again). Thanks to You and Guillaume for the pointers and the info! Daniel -- LIVAI Daniel PGP key ID = 0x83B63A8F Key fingerprint = DBEC C66B A47A DFA2 792D 650C C69B BE4C 83B6 3A8F
