2GB limit on files ?

[Tommy Reynolds]

Uttered Aly Dharshi <aly.dharshi at telus.net>, spake thus:

> 	I hope that you are well, I am trying to download a DVD iso for SGI-XFS 
> from ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/RH-XFS-DVD/ and I get the error File 
> size limit exceeded error.
> 
> 	Is 2GB the upper limit for files in a 32 bit system ? How can I 
> circumvent this ?

This is complicated: the kernel has limits, the VFS has limits, and
the lower-level filesystem handler has limits.  You can check here:

http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:6wgLyjeV7iIJ:www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/courses/4513-B03/papers/files/florido-jfs.pdf+reiser+limit+max+file+size&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

You may have to reformat a honking big partition...