[plug] tar file limitation ?

[Cameron Patrick]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 01:22:18PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:

| A common size limit is 2 gigabytes for ext2/3 (except maybe newer
| ext3, I'm not sure) and older versions of reiserfs.

Since a couple of people have claimed this, I suppose I should point out
that modern ext3 doesn't have the 2G limit - though I'm not sure of the
cut-off for "modern".  Linux's FAT32 and SMB support has a 2 gig limit
though :(

(cameron at erdos ~) df -H /archive
Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6               21G   9.5G    12G  46% /archive
(cameron at erdos ~) mount | grep /archive
/dev/hda6 on /archive type ext3 (rw,noatime)
(cameron at erdos ~) dd if=/dev/zero of=/archive/temp/big.file bs=1M count=6000
6000+0 records in
6000+0 records out
6291456000 bytes transferred in 205.950770 seconds (30548349 bytes/sec)

Cameron.