File size limit exceeded

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Fr, den 12.03.2004 schrieb Björn Persson um 21:37:
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>>What file system do you use? Ext2 and Ext3 have a limit at about 2 GB. 
>>Some other file systems can handle larger files.
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>>Björn Persson
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>Björn,
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>what is the source of that "knowledge"?
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>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.
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>Alexander
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I created an ~ 8.5GB file on RH7.3 in an ext3 filesystem.

Perhaps you should use strace to find out what is going on.  Or lsof to 
periodically check what the process has for open files and offsets 
before it hits the problem.

Chris

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