[NTLUG:Discuss] File Size Limits

[Steve Baker]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Has the 2GB file size limit been broken under Linux yet?

Yes.

steve at batcave:/home/steve> ls -l t6
-rw-rw-rw-    1 steve    users    4294967296 Nov 19 16:03 t6

4,294,967,296 == 4Gb.

> If so, does it need a special kernel gen to get there?

Nope - that was a standard SuSE 2.4.18 kernel with zilch adjustment by me.

> 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.

Well - that may mean that some programs have trouble dealing with
files over 2Gb - but the kernel seems to be managing just fine.

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