[NTLUG:Discuss] File Size Limits

[Chris Cox]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Has the 2GB file size limit been broken under Linux yet?
> 
> If so, does it need a special kernel gen to get there?
> 
> I'm thinking that it hasn't because size_t is still typedef'ed to an int 
> in many places, and that's 32-bit until we go to 64-bit processors.
> 

Uhhh... yep.. broke through this quite some time ago....
# ls -lh
total 24G
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root          256 Nov 14 13:50 .
drwxr-xr-x   25 root     root          600 Nov  3 16:32 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          84M Jul 16 10:05 9_Recommended.zip
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         9.8G Sep  2 13:21 celap5-suse82-30G-cjc.img
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8.1G Sep 24 16:53 celap7-suse82-30G-cjc.img
-rw-r--r--    1 root     users        5.3G Jul 24 12:46 rh90-n610c.img.gz

I know I've created larger files... just an example.

This is from a SuSE 8.2 box with a 1.7TB RAID 5 using
reiserfs out of the box.... no mods necessary with SuSE anyway.

Samba has a "come and go" issue with 32bit limits... you'll need
to have both the latest samba 2.2.8a+ and the latest kernel smbfs patches
for it to understand more than 2G (there are other versions of
Samba where it worked... it's just one of those things that
comes and goes).

I'm working on getting our 1st 4TB RAID setup and working.  It's
split across two SuSE boxen (they can see each others stuff
when needed... sort of a cheap man's SAN).