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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:54:21 +0200
From: Oliver Vecernik <ml AT vecernik DOT at>
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Subject: Re: 4GB limit on FAT32
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Hi Brian,

Brian Dessent schrieb:
> 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.

I misunderstood a statement in a forum. There seems to be no really
platform independant file system without those limitations. There is no
write support for NTFS under Linux and ext2/ext3 write support under
Windows is also not supported (at least open source). I also had a look
at FreeBSD, but the same situation with UFS2.

The only possibility is to buy the drivers from Paragon.


Oliver.

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