File size limit exceeded

[Björn Persson]

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.

I've read that several times in different places. One of them may have
been "Best of tech support" in Linux Journal. Other that that I don't
remember. If it's wrong it must be a rumour that's floating around.

I think only Ext2 was mentioned in most cases, but I've also read
somewhere that Ext3 is simply Ext2 + journalling so I figured the file
size limit would be the same.

Björn Persson