Re: File System Limitations

Brian
2001-08-24T00:21:09Z

Do you have a file size limit set in ulimit?
The last RedHat I installed had most of the limits set.

-- Brian

On Thursday 23 August 2001 07:40 pm, Fred wrote:
> glibc-2.2.2-10
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=./tgb count=4000 bs=1M
>
> created file of 2147483647 bytes
>
> [root@bits /a5]# dd if=/dev/zero of=./tgb count=4000 bs=1M
> File size limit exceeded (core dumped)
> [root@bits /a5]#
>
> is glibc part of gcc? where do i find glibc?
> (I've recently compiled gcc-3.00, but won't install cause it breaks
> kernel compilations).
>
>
>
> TIA
>
> Fred
>
> _________________________________________________
>
> On Thursday 23 August 2001 06:18 pm, Tony Hoyle wrote:
> > Fred wrote:
> > > so why dos my filesystem have a 2 GB limit?
> > > Must I specify a large block size or some such when i format?
> > >
> > > i run 2.4.9 on redhat7.1 out of the box
> >
> > Does it? Unless RH are using a seriously old glibc (which I doubt)
> > there's no 2GB limit any more.
> >
> > Some older applications don't work with it AFAIK... anything bundled
> > with a modern distro shouldn't have any problems.
> >
> > Tony
> >
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