File size limit exceeded

[John Thompson]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:58:57 +0100
Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:

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

I do:

[john at starfleet john]$ du -h /space/backup/starfleet/emulators/emulators.backup.20040311 
24G	/space/backup/starfleet/emulators/emulators.backup.20040311

Works just fine on an ext3 filesystem here...

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-John (JohnThompson at new.rr.com)