[ale] file size limit?

[Geoffrey]

Bob Toxen wrote:
> 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!

Well, I'm about to find out, I'm bittorrenting Mandrake 10.1 official 
dvd. :)

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Until later, Geoffrey