On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:02:53 -0500 gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i know that a fat32 filesystem has a 4gb limit, and that an ext3 > system (that's what i'm using) has a limit considerably higher.... > why then can't i build a file any bigger than 2gb on my machine?
Actually, most file systems have a limit of 2gb per file. I believe XFS and JFS both allow larger than 2gb files. I know for certain JFS does, as I use it on my partitions where I store video. Once you get past file system support, then you have to deal with application support. Many applications, particularly older ones, use 32 bit integers for file sizes and offsets, this limits them to dealing with 2gb files or smaller. However, I believe that most new apps, particularly those that are likely to deal with large files and most of the GNU file utils are compiled with large file support, meaning they use 64 bit files sizes and offsets. -- jim nutt home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ms msg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp id: 1ECBCC78
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