file size limit for the ext3 file system

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:44:35 -0400 (EDT), Christopher L Judd wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> I am running Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 3, unpatched (kernel
> 2.4.21-4.ELsmp).  Can anyone tell
> me or
> point me in the direction of documentation that would tell me the file
> size limit for the ext3 file system?   I have a 4.6 GB file on gistest
> that isn't recognized by the ArcSDE import command line utility.

Needless to say, when you have a 4.6 GB file already, obviously the
file-system is not limited to less than that. But your utility is the
culprit most likely, because 32-bit applications must implement large
file support in userspace in order to handle files above 2 GB in size.

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