2 Gb File Size Limit ?

[Justin L Croonenberghs]

Doncho N. Gunchev said:
> 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.

Hmm, I always thought the 2GB file-size limit was a FAT32 limitation...is
this a Linux thing too? I've never run across this problem.

(granted, I seldom work with files > 2GB, bur...)