File size limit exceeded

[David Jansen]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:58:57PM +0100, 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.
> 
> Alexander

The 2 GB file size limit on ext2 is quite some time ago, 2.2 kernels or
early 2.4 I think. Of course there may still be programs that cannot
handle such files, but the kernel and filesystem should be able to
support it.

David Jansen