FW: 2 gig file size limit.

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Sigh. I want my static IP back...

-----Original Message-----
From: James Zuelow [mailto:e5z8652@zuelow.net]
Sent: Fri 6/9/2006 8:05 PM
To: James Zuelow
Subject: Re: 2 gig file size limit.
 
On Friday 09 June 2006 18:40, Adam bultman wrote:
> Luke: Your limit isn't kernel based, it is either a limit in your
> filesystem, or your operating system (i.e. a configuration file somewhere)
>
> I don't know what the limit on EXT2 is, but I've bumped into the limit
> before, but the limits were redhat related, not kernel related. It was
> on an RH 6.2 or RH7.3 system which is ancient, so the solution I found
> may not be the same one you need.
>
> If you are EXT2, you'll want to bump to ext3 at a bare minimum. If
> you're running a filesystem that natively supports 2+GB files (odds are
> you are) then you'll want to google for your problem. You'll solve it,
> eventually.
>

Wikipedia has a handy comparison chart for current file systems here:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits
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Looks like 2GB shouldn't be a problem for anything remotely up to date.

I found this on Google:

#!/usr/bin/perl
open FILE, ">testfile";
while(1){
  print FILE "Test.\n" or die $!;
  }

and at least on Debian Etch, 2.6.15, I can grow files over 2GB.

ls -lh testfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 james james 2.4G 2006-06-09 19:19 testfile

(I killed it at this point, didn't see how big it would go)

James

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Received on Fri Jun 9 20:10:59 2006