Re: regd max file size

From: David Clymer (david_at_zettazebra.com)
Date: 10/29/04

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    On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 05:49, Micheal Mukherji wrote:
    > My apologies if you feel its not a thing related to debian.
    >
    >
    > Is the 'maximum file size' a constraint of a particular file system
    > implementation or the constraint of operating system?
    >

    Both, I believe. For example, 32bit versions of linux are limited to
    smaller filesizes than are 64bit versions. However, there are filesize
    limits that are particular to filesystems as well - Resierfs has a
    maximum of 8TB^8 whereas fat32 has a maximum of 4GB (according to
    wikipedia). So its possible that a given filesystem could allow larger
    filesizes than the kernel can address or vis versa.

    -davidc 

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