File size limit exceeded
Samuel Flory
sflory at rackable.com
Fri Mar 12 22:38:04 UTC 2004
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Fr, den 12.03.2004 schrieb Björn Persson um 21:37:
>
>
>>What file system do you use? Ext2 and Ext3 have a limit at about 2 GB.
>>Some other file systems can handle larger files.
>>
>>Björn Persson
>
>
> Björn,
>
> what is the source of that "knowledge"?
>
> Actually I have no that big file on any of my Fedora machines, but even
> on my old RH7.2 system with ext3 filesystem I had no problem with a
> backup tarball > 2GB size.
>
You should have had issues on 7.2, but not on 8.0 or newer.
http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html
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