Is there a way round the 2gb File size Limit

smurf · 07-10-2002, 10:15 AM

I was wondering if there was anyway round the really annoying 2gb file size limit in linux. I am using Redhat 7.0 with the 2.2.18 kernel and ext2 file system, as a server and samba to interface with my XP workstation.

I have read that the 2.4 kernels have LFS (Large File Support). But i cant find any decent info on how it works and installs (Not very clever with file systems).

I was also wondering if it would be easy to compile NTFS in my 2.2 kernel and create a partition using NTFS. As NTFS seems to allow me to create the files sizes in need.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

dorward · 07-10-2002, 10:26 AM

AFAIK the ext2 file system that comes wtih 2.4 supports 4gig files. If you care to use a patched kernel and switch your file systems to XFS I think the upper limit is measured in Terrabytes.

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/

Linux write support for NTFS is considered "dangerous and will probably trash your data" so that wouldn't be a good approach.

Phonics3k · 07-10-2002, 02:57 PM

i trashed my ntfs drive when using write