file size limitation in linux?

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

"Mark J. Dulcey" <mark at buttery.org> writes:

> First, you have to use a file system that supports larger files.
> ext2 and ext3 have a file size limit of 2GB, so even if you got your
> code to compile, it wouldn't help. 

I've found that on RedHat 7.3 (I haven't checked on older releases) 
the 2 GB limit exists for ext2, but not ext3. I've had video files 
choke at 2 GB on an ext2 volume, and after running tune2fs -j /dev/hdd1 
and remounting the volume as ext3, I've successfully written video files 
up to 7 GB long. 


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