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 More options Jun 19 2005, 6:20 pm
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From: jim_bow...@hotmail.com
Date: 19 Jun 2005 15:20:49 -0700
Local: Sun, Jun 19 2005 6:20 pm
Subject: Re: The C-Prize
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Erratum:

I had written:

>  such as ext3 which have a 2GiB file size limit.

This is wrong.  I got this erroneous information from the first hit
that google returned on the subject:

http://www.linuxgeek.net/beginners/node101.html

The truth is that the maximum file size varies with the blocksize of
the ext3 file system and that maximum file size is given by the
following table available from:
http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse91/suselinux-adminguide/html/...

Ext2 or Ext3 (1 kB block size)  234 (16 GB)     241 (2 TB)
Ext2 or Ext3 (2 kB block size)  238 (256 GB)    243 (8 TB)
Ext2 or Ext3 (4 kB block size)  241 (2 TB)      244 (16 TB)
Ext2 or Ext3 (8 kB block size) (systems with 8 kB pages (like
Alpha)) 246 (64 TB)     245 (32 TB)

My Ubuntu system came with 4kB blocksize (according to dumpe2fs) for
max file size of 2TB.

The problem was with the wget command.  Apparently the Linux distro
guys aren't as religious as they should be about updating their basic
utilities to handle larger file sizes given the new world of cheap
massively large disks.


 
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