Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

[David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>]

On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Jeff D wrote:

> André Wendt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and
> > repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This  
> > is on ext3.
> > $ ulimit -f
> > unlimited
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux think 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:24:01 UTC 2007 i686  
> > GNU/Linux
> > This doesn't seem to be a problem for other programs. I have a
> > VirtualBox snapshot as large as 2,587,808 bytes.
> > Any hints as to what's going on? Please CC me, I'm not on the list.
> > Thanks,
> > André
>
> What testing suite are you using for this?  Have you tried to use  
> dd to create a file larger than this?  I'm going to guess what you  
> are seeing here is file size limit of the application you are using  
> rather than ext3.

I think so too.  I bet this is an old bit of code, or maybe an old  
binary statically compiled against old libraries.
 Both the filesystem *and* the program have to support large files  
for it to work.

ext2 and ext3 haven't had a 2 gigabyte limit in a long, long time.