2GB limit on files ?

[Aly Dharshi]

I guess that I lied, Solaris didn't like it as well. Hmmm... could it be 
wget ?

Aly Dharshi wrote:
> Well I used wget to try and download the iso, which has failed a couple 
> of times.  I tried the same wget command on a Solaris 8 box and it seems 
> to work just fine, post that a copy to the Fedora box worked just fine 
> and even the mounting (iso mounting) worked A-Okay. I wonder what the 
> issue is/was ?
> 
>    Cheers,
> 
>    Aly.
> 
> 
> Kevin Krieser wrote:
> 
>> What program did you use to try to download it?
>>
>> I haven't had much problem since the era of the 2.2 kernel when, even
>> though the kernel supported larger files, many programs hadn't been
>> updated yet to support them.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]
>> On Behalf Of Aly Dharshi
>> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 3:11 PM
>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: 2GB limit on files ?
>>
>>
>> The funny thing is that I am using Reiserfs that came with the Fedora 
>> CD's. I thought that Reiserfs would support this. Is there possibly a 
>> switch for this ????
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>     Aly.
>>
>> Zach Wilkinson wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I think this depends on the filesystem type you're saving to.  I've 
>>> done tests on JFS using dd where I was able to make 10+ GB files. I 
>>> can't say definitively but if you're saving to EXT2/3 you might be 
>>> running into a size limitation on that filesystem.  That's probably 
>>> why you want XFS, huh? :)
>>>
>>> Zach
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Aly Dharshi" <aly.dharshi at telus.net>
>>> To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 2:59 PM
>>> Subject: 2GB limit on files ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>
>>>> I hope that you are well, I am trying to download a DVD iso for 
>>>> SGI-XFS from ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/RH-XFS-DVD/ and I get 
>>>> the error File size limit exceeded error.
>>>>
>>>> Is 2GB the upper limit for files in a 32 bit system ? How can I 
>>>> circumvent this ?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Aly.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Aly Dharshi
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> that's short enough to be interesting
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> 
> 

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Aly Dharshi
Systems Analyst
Content Applications Group
TELUS Technology & Operations

	 "A good speech is like a good dress
	  that's short enough to be interesting
	  and long enough to cover the subject"