filesize limit on ext3
Steve
steve at focb.co.nz
Wed Jul 7 21:57:50 UTC 2004
If your numerical simulation software was compiled without largefile
support and is trying to address a file larger than 2Gig then you will get
this result.
All aspects of a system including the applications that address the files,
need largefile support in order to work correctly.
--
Steve.
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 mlmayo at texas.net wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running RH Enterprise WS 3 with the default ext3 filesystem on
> ia32. I've searched the web for an answer to my question but I'm getting
> mixed results. I am running a numerical simulation that crashes with
> the following error... file size limit exceeded. The file produced is
> at 2GB when the simulation crashes. Is the file size limited to 2GB
> on ext3? If so is there a way around this barrier? The output of
> ulimit -a produces
>
> core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited
> data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
> file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
> max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 4
> max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
> open files (-n) 1024
> pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
> stack size (kbytes, -s) unlimited
> cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
> max user processes (-u) 7168
> virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
>
> also, I am able to create *.tar files in excess of 2GB so this file size
> exceeded error message is puzzling. Thank you for your time.
>
> Michael
> Mayo
>
>
>
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