I have a question about the Large File Support using Linux and glibc 2.3 on a 32-Bit machine. What's the correct limit for the file size and the file system using LFS (just for the kernel, not to mention filesystem limits etc)? I found two references: "The 2.6 kernel imposes its own limits on the size of files and file systems handled by it. These are as follows: - file size: On 32-bit systems, files may not exceed the size of 2 TB. - file system size: File systems may be up to 2e73 bytes large. However, this limit is still out of reach for the currently available hardware." Source: http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse91/suselinux-adminguide/html/apas04.html "Kernel 2.6: For both 32-bit systems with option CONFIG_LBD set and for 64-bit systems: The size of a file system is limited to 2e73 (far too much for today). On 32-bit systems (without CONFIG_LBD set) the size of a file is limited to 2 TiB. Note that not all filesystems and hardware drivers might handle such large filesystems." Source: http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html I think it's 2TB for the file size and 2e73 for the file system, but I don't understand the second reference and the part about the CONIFG_LBD. What is exactly the CONFIG_LBD option? -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
