On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 05:49, Micheal Mukherji wrote: > My apologies if you feel its not a thing related to debian. > > > Is the 'maximum file size' a constraint of a particular file system > implementation or the constraint of operating system? >
Both, I believe. For example, 32bit versions of linux are limited to smaller filesizes than are 64bit versions. However, there are filesize limits that are particular to filesystems as well - Resierfs has a maximum of 8TB^8 whereas fat32 has a maximum of 4GB (according to wikipedia). So its possible that a given filesystem could allow larger filesizes than the kernel can address or vis versa. -davidc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
