On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:58:57PM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Fr, den 12.03.2004 schrieb Björn Persson um 21:37: > > > What file system do you use? Ext2 and Ext3 have a limit at about 2 GB. > > Some other file systems can handle larger files. > > > > Björn Persson > > Björn, > > what is the source of that "knowledge"? > > Actually I have no that big file on any of my Fedora machines, but even > on my old RH7.2 system with ext3 filesystem I had no problem with a > backup tarball > 2GB size. > > Alexander The 2 GB file size limit on ext2 is quite some time ago, 2.2 kernels or early 2.4 I think. Of course there may still be programs that cannot handle such files, but the kernel and filesystem should be able to support it. David Jansen
