File size limit exceeded

Björn Persson bjorn_persson at sverige.nu
Fri Mar 12 20:37:06 UTC 2004


Horacio Reyes wrote:

> Fews weeks ago, we change our old AIX for a new intel/fedora machine. We
> make software in ansi C, we recompile all programs with gcc and works fine
> with almost every input file, until we process a program with a 3Gb input
> file (AFP file), then one of our programs say "File size limit exceeded"
> 
> We re-run this on our old AIX and works fine with this file.
> 
> Any idea?

What file system do you use? Ext2 and Ext3 have a limit at about 2 GB. 
Some other file systems can handle larger files.

Björn Persson





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