[NTLUG:Discuss] File Size Limits

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 17:01, NTLUG wrote:
> 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.
> 

some apps like apache will only work with less-than-2gb files. If your
apache log 
files go over 2Gig the apache server will crash or stop logging... can't
remember 
which.... so ever if the OS does large files... the apps might not. 

jack



> 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).
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > https://ntlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss