Linux Beginner wrote:
Hello Team
What is the max.single file that Linux FC2 supports on Intel
Desktop (dual boot) 32-Bit? Is that 2GB?
Nope. The largest file is defined by the second parameter of the
"lseek()" call, which is defined as type "off_t". An "off_t" is a
64-bit signed integer. Since you can only use the positive part of
that as the file size (to permit seeking backwards in a file), the
maximum file size is 2^63 or 9 * 10^18 bytes.
The problem is that many applications still mistakenly use "int" (32-bit
signed integer) instead of off_t for that parameter. 2^31 is 2 * 10^9
or 2GB, so that's where the limit comes from.
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