On Thursday 13 November 2003 20:43, Matt Temple wrote: > Doncho N. Gunchev wrote: > > 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. > > I thought that limitation went away with the 2.4 kernel. > > mht True, but if your tools/programs do not support LFS (are not compiled with it) then you just can't take the advantage of this kernel support. -- Regards, Doncho N. Gunchev
