Linux large file support for FAT 32

Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:37:10 -0400

Daniel,

You need to look at the entire file system mount path for >2GB support.

The Kernel must support it. (you say you have done this)

The VFAT driver must support it.  (I don't know if this is possible)

Any other drivers along the way, such as SAMBA or NFS must support it, if you
are not mounting the FAT32 partition locally.

I would start with a good look at the VFAT driver to see if it has support for
files that size and/or if it has to be enabled or re-compiled or something.  I
hope the partition is mounted locally so you don't have to worry about even
more layers.

Alan

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Daniel Montagnese
<dmontagnese@yahoo.com> wrote:

I was reading the document about LFS ( large file support ) -
http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html.  vfat is placed in the category of an
msdos file system and supports file sizes only up to 2GB.  We are using the
2.4.7-10 kernel which supports LFS for ext3, but does not seem to work with
vfat ( FAT32 ).  Does the 2.4.7-10 kernel or a newer kernel support the use of
files larger than 2GB for the vfat ( FAT32 ) file system?

Daniel F. Montagnese