[OpenAFS] file size

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:04:46 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:

> amar deep kumar <kumaramar_sonu@rediffmail.com> writes:
> 
> >     AFS ha sgot a file size limitation of 2GB. Is there any method how to
> >     increase this limitaion. Can any body give me an idea of how to go
> >     about it.
> 
> Rewrite the AFS client and server code to use different data structures.
> So far as I know, this is a fairly deep limitation in the AFS
> implementation.

Theoretically the head already has the client side work done (thanks
Hartmut) but there's not really any good way to test it, as only the MRAFS
fileserver (and probably only the one Hartmut has) supports it.

Hartmut, am I correct?

-D