From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thornton Prime Subject: Re: 2GB max file size Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:02:15 -0800 Message-ID: <2d7eccf505032908027eafdb7e@mail.gmail.com> References: <5.2.1.1.0.20050329160147.049ed668@127.0.0.1> <200503291733.35809.fluca1978@infinito.it> Reply-To: thornton@yoyoweb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200503291733.35809.fluca1978@infinito.it> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: fluca1978@infinito.it Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:33:35 +0200, Luca Ferrari wrote: > Actually I'm trying with zip, that fails if the file becomes bigger than 2 GB. > SInce I remember that, due to the i-node structure, unix cannot handle a file > greater than 2GB, I was wondering the problem was of the filesystem and not > of the program itself. However, before renouncing to use zip, is there > something I can do on the filesystem to handle bigger files? The limitation was lifted quite a while ago. It could be an old format of the filesystem that still lives with the limitation, or it could be a limitation in the version of zip that you use. I use tar, so I'm not sure when or if the 2G limitation was fixed in zip (I have a hard time believing it wasn't). Make sure your reiserfs is sufficiently new format. I can't remember when reiserfs began support of files >2G, but anything v3 should certainly be capable, and probably anything v2. ext3, IIRC, has always supported >2G files, so the support for 2G files is at least as old as ext3. thornton