Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42B1A710.A41B00AE@dessent.net> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:21:36 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 4GB limit on FAT32 References: <42B1A4B1.1080706@vecernik.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Report: -5.8/5.0 ---- Start SpamAssassin results * -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts * -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * 0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list ---- End SpamAssassin results X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com 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/