>> What is the maximum file size on a normal Red Hat setup these days? >> (i.e. on 7.2 or 7.3 using ext3) I seem to remember hitting the roof at >> 2Gb in the past, but (fortunately) it looks like I can create files >> larger than that now. > That's not quite true. I can create files larger than 2Gb, or 4Gb for > that matter, using > > dd if=/dev/zero of=... count=... > > but whith open() + write() in a C program I get > > Filesize limit exceeded (core dumped) > > after 2Gb is written. O_LARGEFILE on open() seems to make no difference. Not quite true (minor error in the code when testing ;-/) - O_LARGEFILE does make a difference. Which doesn't help as much as you'd hope, since what I really want is to create >2Gb files with libtiff, which doesn't appear to pass the appropriate flag on open...
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