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From: Greg Russell <me@invalid.org>
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Subject: Re: ext3 filesize problem
Date: 5 Feb 2012 01:22:38 GMT
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On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:47:39 -0600, Robert Heller wrote in
rPCdnUh1sJpmq7DSnZ2dnUVZ_oadnZ2d@posted.localnet :

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> Has *anyone* looked at the actual code?  The specific limitation might
> even be (shudder) *documented* in the code.  And there might even be an
> explaination as to why the limitation is there.  The limitation might be
> stupid or might be a design flaw, but it is obviously there.

Thank you, that expresses the issue well.

My efforts to download the source code from sourceforge meet with a debian 
package only.