File size limit exceeded

[Samuel Flory]

Björn Persson wrote:
> Horacio Reyes wrote:
> 
>> Fews weeks ago, we change our old AIX for a new intel/fedora machine. We
>> make software in ansi C, we recompile all programs with gcc and works 
>> fine
>> with almost every input file, until we process a program with a 3Gb input
>> file (AFP file), then one of our programs say "File size limit exceeded"
>>
>> We re-run this on our old AIX and works fine with this file.
>>
>> Any idea?
> 
> 
> What file system do you use? Ext2 and Ext3 have a limit at about 2 GB. 
> Some other file systems can handle larger files.
> 

   Most likely the error message in their program is wrong, and they are 
hitting a memory addressing limit.

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