Large file support

To support files larger than 2 GiB on 32-bit systems, e.g. x86, PowerPC and MIPS, a number of changes to kernel and C library had to be done. This is called Large File Support (LFS). The support for LFS should be complete now in Linux and this article should give a short overview of the current status.

64 bit systems like Alpha, IA64 and x86-64 don't have problems with large files but do support the new interfaces also. In this case the new interface is mainly an alias to the normal interface.

The LFS support is done by the Linux kernel and the GNU C library (aka glibc).

http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html