Alexander Shinn on Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:37:01 -0500 (EST) |
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999 tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com wrote: > What's the Maximum file size limit in Linux? Our SCO OpenServer system > hit the wall with a 2 gig file. Can Linux handle bigger files? Well, an inode in the ext2 filesystem holds the addresses of 12 direct blocks, 1 indirect block (which points to 256 direct blocks), 1 doubly indirect block (pointing to 256 indirect blocks) and 1 triply indirect block (256 doubly indirect blocks). If all of these were used you could have 12 + 256 + 256^2 + 256^3 = 16,843,020 blocks or about 16 gigs. -- f00f -- To unsubscribe, send a message with the word 'unsubscribe' in the subject or body of your message to plug-request@lists.nothinbut.net
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