Large File System Support



Hello,

I am a newbie with respect to file system.

I have a program which after running for some time give me a "File Size
Exceeded Error". Strangely it is after 33 MB of file.

The output I get is
[root@localhost disks]# ls -al someFile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35064832 Sep 20 22:20 someFile

When I do a > ulimit -a, I get the following output.

core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 1024
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 1024
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 16383
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited

I checked the file system. It is the normal Ext3 system. The following
is out put of fsck
[root@localhost disks]# fsck -N
fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /boot] fsck.ext3 /dev/hda1

I am really confused as I have unlimited file size. Infact, I have
files which are much larger than this on my filesystem. This is the
only file which is creating problems.

Appreciate any input !!

.



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