"Kenneth E. Lussier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi All,
> 
> Can the 2GB file size limit be changed? I need to store about 10GB worth
> of data in a single file, but it dies at 2GB.

I have files that are more than 3 GB on my system, in an ext3 filesystem.
It depends on whether the failure is happening at the filesystem level
or the application level. For instance, I tried copying one of these 
files thru NFS once, and as I recall it failed at the 2 GB point.


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