On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 09:23:49AM +0100, LEVAI Daniel wrote:
> I don't remember having a 2GiB filesize limit anywhere near, but the old
> extfs. What am I missing here?
Hi,
I think it is enforced here (in the file /sys/ufs/ext2fs/ext2fs_inode.c:
--
int
ext2fs_setsize(struct inode *ip, u_int64_t size)
{
if ((ip->i_e2fs_mode & IFMT) == IFREG ||
ip->i_e2fs_mode == 0) {
ip->i_e2fs_dacl = size >> 32;
if (size >= 0x80000000U) {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
--
Which leaves probably this i_e2fs_mode which is probably a superblock flag.
I checked the newfs_ext2fs manpage and it says the following:
--
-O filesystem-format
Select the filesystem-format.
0 `GOOD_OLD_REV'; this option is primarily used to
build root file systems that can be understood by
old or dumb firmwares for bootstrap. (default)
1 `DYNAMIC_REV'; various extended (and sometimes
incompatible) features are enabled (though not all
features are supported on OpenBSD). Currently
only the following features are supported:
...<some cut>...
LARGEFILE Enable files larger than 2G
bytes.
--
so perhaps you need to turn on this "LARGEFILE" feature at newfs time somehow...
Good luck,
-peter
