Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:11:57 -0600 | From | Mike Eldridge <> | Subject | Re: Filesize limit on SMBFS |
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On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 09:10:24AM -0200, Marcelo Borges Ribeiro wrote: > I have fat32 partition, but the problem isn´t the size of partition it is > 8GB. The problem is that if you want to > create a cpio backup of a linux system 3.5GB (I did that to reformat a ext2 > to a reiserfs) to an available fat32 space, in my case the backup size is > allways 2GB and when I tried to extract back I saw "unexpected end of file". > So I thought it was that famous kernel limitation of 2GB under any kind of > partition, but i was informed that fat has this limitation too. So the > kernel may suport files bigger than 2GB (I really don´t know, I just know > that in my case with fat32 it did not and I saw this too with some oracle > databases that could not be used when they grow and reach 2GB, may be a > library problem too).
ext2 has a 2GB filesize limitation.
-mike
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