[ale] file size limit?

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:24, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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.
> 
> You are correct.  I did do some googling without success, tried again 
> and had better luck.  The moon must have moved or something.  Here's a 
> nice table directly from SuSE/Novell:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/5makt

A cool table.  Especially cool is the claim in the table that JFS
supports files 2^11 times bigger that the the filesystem itself!

That appears to be a magic property of JFS.  All the other limit their
files to a size smaller than the filesystem as a whole.  I wonder how
they do it?

Michael