On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:44:02AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> % 
> % Does the 2 Gig file size limit on Linux get broken when I have a hardware
> % raid controller?
> 
> The limit applies only to ext2 filesystems, and not all of them at that;
> ext3 and reiserfs (and others) can happily write much larger files.

The 2GB filesize limit was due to glibc and the linux kernel, not the
ext2 filesystem.  Any linux distro from the past year or so should be
able to handle >2GB files on any filesystem.

Hardware raid is invisible to Linux, so won't affect the maximum
usable filesize.

--Pete

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