Anyone already working to raise the max bytes per file of vfat to 4 GiB? I see up to and beyond 4 GiB works great in 2.4.20-xfs for mount type ext2 ... no matter whether via dd, java.io.RandomAccessFile, or gcc of _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE. But I see the vfat I have in Linux chokes down at 2 GiB - 1, complaining of "File size limit exceeded" or "Invalid argument", which makes that Linux vfat inconveniently incompatible with the $$ vfat I bought to run elsewhere. http://www.google.com/ http://lxr.linux.no/source/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt http://lxr.linux.no/source/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt seemingly do not comment, except to say back before 2.4 many kernels lacked the LFS = large file system that let ext2 & friends go past 2 GiB, and that even in 2.4 the limits of 4 Gi blocks = 2 TiB / 0.5 KiB annoy some people. The kernel source includes such strings as "2 GB" and "4 GB" and "2GB" and "4GB", but seemingly only in unrelated contexts. So I ask: Anyone already working to raise the max bytes per file of vfat to 4 GiB? Pat LaVarre p.lavarre@ieee.org --- end of message --- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
