file size limit

[James Cooley]

RHEL3 - 1TB
RHEL4 - 4TB


http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/configuration/


--James Cooley

Steve Buehler wrote:

> Where can I find a page at redhat that gives the file size limits for 
> their different versions and file system types. A customer wants me to 
> do a backup of his data and if I tar czvf the info up, it comes up to 
> a 5.4gig file. I want to make sure this isn't going to be a problem on 
> RHEL ES 3 or 4. Since I am sure this will grow in size as they add 
> more to their system, I am curious how big it can get before running 
> into problems. The file systems on both the server I am backing up to 
> and the one I am backing up from are ext3.
> I did a google of "file size limit site://www.redhat.com" and that 
> came up with 4,650 items. It was even more for the whole net and still 
> didn't find the answer.
>
> Thanks
> Steve
>