file size limitation in linux?

Fri Oct 18 09:51:07 EDT 2002

Redhat has being distributing a linux-enterprise kernel for some
time now, which includes things like large file ad memory support.
If memory servers, even RH6.2 had an enterprise kernel.

"Mark J. Dulcey" wrote:
> John Abreau wrote:
> > "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. 
> 
> Interesting. Nothing I have read about ext3 led me to believe that it would h
> andle larger files, and I haven't had occasion to try it myself. It's nice to
>  know that there is another option. People running Red Hat (where ext3 is now
>  the native filesystem) will be especially pleased; it's not as big a deal fo
> r SuSE fans, where ReiserFS is now the default.
> 
> The original question was about Red Hat 7.1, which didn't even include ext3 s
> upport; ext3 made its first appearance in 7.2. At the very least, you would n
> eed a newer kernel to use it with 7.1, and you would really want newer versio
> ns of the ext2 utilities (the new ones that support ext3) as well.
> 
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