On Monday 13 May 2002 07:45 am, Ashley Reynolds wrote:
> I assume this 2Gb file size limit is a limitation within the ext2
> file system? Does ext3 have this same issue? Which file systems
> can handle file sizes upwards of 2Gb?
>
> Ashley
You got me curious so I did a little Google searching. I
didn't find ext3's limit, but since it's just ext2+journaling, I
suspect the limit is the same as ext2. ReiserFS has a 4GB limit.
XFS has a 2 TB (terabytes) limit. But... then in another page on
SGI's site they say, "Existing software will run with XFS without
recompilation in files up to 2GB; depending on the application,
changes may be required to support larger files".
So it appears that 'out of the box', ReiserFS handles the largest
files. I've never had to deal with this size issue, so I don't really
know, but I suspect the kernel running on a 32bit system has a lot to
do with file size limits too.
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