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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: 4 gig st15150n disk setups
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>> Some but not all bugs involving >=2GB file systems have been fixed.  E.g.,
>> the clustering code silently botches single files >=2GB, and mmap()

>Are we talking file sizes or file system sizes?

>> silently botches offsets >=4GB.  I don't know of any problem for normally
>> sized files but wouldn't trust file systems >=2GB.

>I've been running on one 4GB and on 8.6GB pretty _heavily_ with no problems
>whatsoever for a few weeks now!

Both.  I don't trust any software that doesn't check for overflow.

Bruce