On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, ICMan wrote:
> My $0.02:
>
> Is there a way to query the file system to find out what the max-file-size is?
> If there is, I don't know how to do it, but it could be added to split(1) so
> that split(1) will handle the largest file allowed by whichever file system is
> holding the file it is pointing to.
I think it is enough to make split handle file sizes up to the max of
off_t. Any actual maximum file size will be smaller of equal to that.
There is no uniform way to ask the max file size of a given
file system. ffs filestems do have that info in therir superblock,
though, you can see it with dumpfs(8).
nfsv3 also use this info, it is exchanged when a mount is done.
tcpdump is able to show it.
-Otto
>
> ICMan
>
> Sebastian Dehne wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed that split(1) can only handle files which's size <= 2GB. I
> > adjusted my version so that it support larger files.
> >
> > Why is this limit never increased. I mean, the fs supports much bigger
> > files. Are there any plans to increased this limit in the future so I don't
> > need to patch again when installing a new release?
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Sebastian
