2 Gb File Size Limit ?

Doncho N. Gunchev mr700 at globalnet.bg
Tue Nov 18 09:04:40 UTC 2003


On Thursday 13 November 2003 20:43, Matt Temple wrote:
> 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
True, but if your tools/programs do not support LFS (are not compiled with it)
then you just can't take the advantage of this kernel support.

-- 
Regards,
  Doncho N. Gunchev





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