Re: [TCLUG:23243] ftp.mn-linux.org troubles

[dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 12:31:47PM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> This is a vendor specific option.  Try to get PostgreSQL to do this for
> instance.  Another instance is a fileserver.  There is nothing stopping a
> user from trying to copy a DVD file over to the server.
> 
> Tom Veldhouse
> veldy@veldy.net
> 
Does anyone know how they fixed the 2 GB limit in the new filesystems
coming out (XFS, ReiserFS, ext3, etc)?  Did they just allow the file size
in bytes to flow over to another word or something?  I know I've had
files between 2 and 4 GB on *BSD machines (running FFS) without problems.

Gabe
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