On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:30:53 -0600, Kevin Krieser wrote: > The issue is that, for years, the basic APIs for fileaccess was based on a > signed long int for file offset, limiting files to 2GB. When 40MB, or even > 400MB hard drives were common, this wasn't a big issue. When 4GB hard > drives, and larger, started to become prevalent, workarounds had to be > devised. Less efficient, since 64bit values aren't a basic type. Also, > programs had to be reviewed and revised to ensure that file offsets weren't > being done in 32 bit integers. > > Of course, for many programs, it was just a special recompile against a new > glibc. For instance, if all you do is read sequentially, there probably > isn't a problem. The original poster 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. That should be the basis for any replies. Since details are missing, it should be asked what file-systems and applications are involved. The 2.4.x kernel and ext3 fs are not limited to 2 GiB. --
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