Re: [gentoo-user] 2gb limit?

2003-03-03 Thread Jim Nutt
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:02:53 -0500 gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i know that a fat32 filesystem has a 4gb limit, and that an ext3 > system (that's what i'm using) has a limit considerably higher > why then can't i build a file any bigger than 2gb on my machine? Actually, most file syst

Re: [gentoo-user] 2gb limit?

2003-03-03 Thread gabriel
On March 3, 2003 11:19 am, MAL wrote: > A program must specifically handle files over 2GB, ffmpeg may not do > this, (plus you need kernel support, but that's been in since 2.4.0). well i don't know about ffmpeg (seems kinda odd that it wouldn't though) but i'm running 2.4.19 > With your samba s

[gentoo-user] 2gb limit?

2003-03-03 Thread gabriel
i know that a fat32 filesystem has a 4gb limit, and that an ext3 system (that's what i'm using) has a limit considerably higher why then can't i build a file any bigger than 2gb on my machine? to clarify, i've run into this problem two notable times: (1) using ffmpeg, i was converting a 3.