[geeks] Linux filesystem size limit?

[Phil Brutsche]

On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 15:48, jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
> On  1 Mar, Al Potter wrote:
> 
> > I want to use a journaling filesystem like ext3 or reiserfs 
> At work I have a 450GB Hardware RAID, Linux 2.4.14, LVM 1.0.1, SGI XFS.
> 
> > Reiserfs formats the partition fine, 
> reiserfs + NFS = bugs. At least in the early 2.4.x kernels.
> 
> > I can't get an ext3 or ext2 filesystem to complete the format.
> AFAIK ext2 has a hard 2GB file size limit.

On some systems, yes.  Almost anything - exceptions include Dead Rat 7.1
- shipping with glibc 2.2 & a 2.4 kernel will have no problems.

That limit went away on 64-bit systems (ie alpha & sparc64) a long time
(ie 2-3 years) ago.

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Phil