[ale] file size limit?

[Bob Toxen]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:02:54AM -0500, James Baldwin wrote:
> On 23 Nov 2004, at 09:37, Geoffrey wrote:
> >Anyone know what the file size limit is on current Linux kernels? 
> >Anyone know a way to figure it out, without trying to create a file?

> If I recall correctly, 2.6 pushed the limit to 2 TB on 32-bit systems. 
> The filesystem you're using also restricts the maximum file size. 
> Certainly google knows.
Also, some programs still have the 2 GB limit in them.  Programs that
uses the 32-bit lseek() will have this limit, even if they just want to
set the pointer to the beginning or end of the file.  DOI!

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