> > We're looking for a way to be able to create a single file slightly > > larger than 4Gbytes (to test some logic in the code which has been > > known to break on ports where seek offsets go over 32-bits). > > > > Or is the largest file we can ever make around 2.3Gbytes ? > > > > The Linux LVM allows you to build a larger filesystem using several dasds - > but if you use the ext2-filesystem the maximum filesize will - afaik - only > be 2GB.
The 2.4 kernel and glibc 2.2 support 64bit file sizes. The actual limit then is about 1Tb. Alan
