From: weiler@crabapple.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jerry Weiler) Subject: Re: >65 Meg Partitions ? Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1992 00:44:38 GMT
In article <1992Jul1.141159.8125@cs.hw.ac.uk> scottd@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Dunn) writes:
This has probably been asked before , but I haven't been getting news
for a while. Is the 65 meg limitation inherent in the kernel, or is it a
limitation of mkfs. If the former, are there plans to solve this, if the
latter, is there an alternative to mkfs available?
Actually, it's not either. It's in the filesystem itself. Linux has
been using the minix filesystem (where these limits arise from).
People have been too busy working on other things to work on this
much, but now a new filesystem is being alpha tested which will solve
these problems. Give the testers a few weeks and they may have
something. Until then, you can either wait, or join the channel KERNEL
on the linux mailing list.
Cheers,
Scott.
- Jerry Weiler