[NTLUG:Discuss] query on configuration for simple data backup storage...

Steve Baker sjbaker1 at airmail.net
Fri Jul 20 16:44:48 CDT 2001


"George E. Lass" wrote:
> 
> Don't know if this will be a problem or not, but doesn't
> Linux still have a ~2GB (2,147,483,647) FILE size limit?

I *thought* that had finally been eliminated - but because 2Gb
is the largest number you can store in a signed 32 bit
integer, it wouldn't suprise me to see some poorly written
programs having trouble with files that big.

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