[olug] large files

[Adam Lassek]

Okay, so how come I just made a 3gb file with dd?

adam at riff:/tmp$ ls -l test
-rw-r--r--    1 adam     users    3252682752 Mar 22 11:56 test

To test this further, I created a 3gb video file (with the huffyuv
codec--always a good choice when you've got too much free space ;)

I can access the file just fine.

On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 11:06, Matthew G. Marsh wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Vincent wrote:
> 
> >                              Ext3           ReiserFS    XFS                 JFS
> > File system max     16384 Gb  17592 Gb   18,000 Pb+     32 Pb
> > File size max          2048 Gb    1 Eb*          9,000 Pb         4 Pb
> 
> Yes note your first numbers - reality is that on a 32 bit OS (aka Linux on
> x86) the _file_ size limit is still 2G (2048M). Try it some time -
> seriously I still run into this especially with Squid and SNORT logs...
> 
> Once you have a _file_ over 2G the application usually just stops working.
> 
> > The 2.4 kernel has a limit of 2048 Gb for a single block device, so no file system larger than that can be created at this time
> > (without patching the standard kernel). This restriction could be removed in the 2.5.x development kernel, and there are patches
> > available to remove this limit, but as of 2.5.29, the patches haven't been officially included yet.
> >
> > The largest block size supported on ia32 is 4Kb.
> >
> > http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-10/jfs_05.html
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Phil Brutsche" <phil at brutsche.us>
> > To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 8:18 AM
> > Subject: Re: [olug] large files
> >
> >
> > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> > >
> > > > I was wondering, does anybody know the maximum filesize limitation for
> > > > ext3 filesystems on a 32-bit machine?
> > >
> > > Very big, provided your glibc and applications are compiled for 64-bit
> > > file support.
> > >
> > > Oh, and if it's not RedHat, chances are you're OK in terms of large file
> > > support.
> > >
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