[NTLUG:Discuss] File Size Limits

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IIRC the 2GB limit was due to ext2 file systems.  Most linux distros use
ext3 as the default and it doesn't have the limitation.

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 16:26, Chris Cox wrote:
> 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).
> 
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