Re: file size limit

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:19:09 +0400 (MSD)


In <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906030029030.19262-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk> Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX) wrote:
> Hi there.

>> What's the max file size on ext2 ?

> Depends on the architecture - 2 Gigabytes on 32-bit architectures,
> somewhere around 9,200 Exabytes on 64-bit architectures.

Unfortunatelly not so big :-(( Only 16Gb with 1K blocks or such
(triple-indirect blocks structure limit). It's worked on but for now
there are this "small" limit exists in Ext2 ...

>> A friend of mine told me that he cannot create files larger than
>> 1GB on an intel box (1KB blocks).

> I have had several files in the 1.2G to 1.6G range on my system, which
> uses 1k blocks, so his problems are not due to any ext2 limits.

I confirm. I also had 2Gb file (it was result of wrong tar command :-)

>> (I can't verify that because my largest partition is 512KB)

> I have floppies with higher capacity than that...presumably you meant
> 512M rather than 512K !!!

:-))

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