On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:44:51PM -0700, Tyler Hall wrote: > Greetings, > > As I've been researching this all week, I'm getting very frustrated. I > never knew there was a 2GB limit for a file. Let me first explain my > situation, before everyone thinks I'm insane for having an 2GB file. > > My company does video on demand, and we stream videos from our servers, to > desktop pc's. We were using an windows computer at first to stream these > videos, and we are trying to convert it to Linux, to save on license costs, > and what not, and we all know, Linux runs way better then Windows anyways ;) > Anyways -- My problem is, I'm trying to grab these movies off of the windows > server and these files are about 3 gig each, and since Linux has a limit of > 2GB, I am unable to get them. > > So, I searched around the net, and found out the 2.4.x kernel supports > larger then an 2GB limit, and I got VERY excited, I installed Mandrake 8.1 > with the new kernel, and I ran a 'dd' to see if would allow me to make an > 3GB file, and of course it did! My next objective was to ftp to the windows > box and now grab that 3GB movie file, that I've been working on all week. > > Unfortunally, it stopped at 2GB and told me 'file size limit exceeded' So, > now I'm way confused. I can create an 3GB file with dd, but I am unable to > download a 3GB file. Is this something fixed in the new version of Mandrake > 8.2? I have tried Redhat 7.2, Slackware 8.1, and a few others, all of them > have the same problem.
Tyler more than likely the program you were using to download the file is not using the new interfaces to support LFS (Large File Support). The changes to make this possible require kernel and glib changes. The traditional interfaces for accessing files are limited to file size because of the addressing of the position in the file is limited to 2^31 which is rougly 2GBytes. You can read up on LFS here: http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
