filesize limit on ext3

[Steve]

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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