2 Gb File Size Limit ?

Matt Temple mht at research.dfci.harvard.edu
Thu Nov 13 18:43:49 UTC 2003


Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2003 21:38, Zate wrote:
> 
>>Can anyone tell me if Fedora will have a 2 Gb file size limit ?  I am
>>trying to copy a VMWare image from a DVD to my home dir (got plenty of
>>space) and it stops with a IO Error at about 2 Gb.  Wanted to know if its
>>a limit of the OS/File System because I can copy the file fine in Windows.
> 
> 
> I had ~ 34 Gb tar backup last week. No problem with RedHat 9 (and maybe 8),
> so there's no OS/FS limit (at least not with ext3). Then I split-ed it into
> 700Mb chunks to burn it on CDs. After this I've tested it to see if I can
> use it to recover the system - all fine. RedHat 7.? seems to have 2Gb limit.
> 
I thought that limitation went away with the 2.4 kernel.

						mht

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