Doncho N. Gunchev said: > On Wednesday 12 November 2003 21:38, Zate wrote: >> Can anyone tell me if Fedora will have a 2 Gb file size limit ? I am >> trying to copy a VMWare image from a DVD to my home dir (got plenty of >> space) and it stops with a IO Error at about 2 Gb. Wanted to know if >> its >> a limit of the OS/File System because I can copy the file fine in >> Windows. > > I had ~ 34 Gb tar backup last week. No problem with RedHat 9 (and maybe > 8), > so there's no OS/FS limit (at least not with ext3). Then I split-ed it > into > 700Mb chunks to burn it on CDs. After this I've tested it to see if I can > use it to recover the system - all fine. RedHat 7.? seems to have 2Gb > limit. Hmm, I always thought the 2GB file-size limit was a FAT32 limitation...is this a Linux thing too? I've never run across this problem. (granted, I seldom work with files > 2GB, bur...)
