File size limit exceeded

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 12.03.2004 schrieb Björn Persson um 21:37:

> 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

Björn,

what is the source of that "knowledge"?

Actually I have no that big file on any of my Fedora machines, but even
on my old RH7.2 system with ext3 filesystem I had no problem with a
backup tarball > 2GB size.

Alexander


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