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Date: | Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:21:36 -0700 |
From: | Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net> |
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Subject: | Re: 4GB limit on FAT32 |
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Oliver Vecernik wrote: > Obviously it is. Is this the expected behaviour? I thought using SP2 on > XP eliminates this restriction. Can anybody explain this? No. It's a fundamental limit of the FAT filesystem that will never go away. Certainly nothing in Cygwin will affect it because Cygwin does not implement any low level filesystem code of its own, it relies on the windows API for that. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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