[Bulk] Re: Large Binary Files

[Gordon Tyler]

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On 10/14/2010 4:10 PM, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 08:22 -0400, Gordon Tyler wrote:
>> Actually, I believe the 2GB limit is on the process memory in a 32-bit
>> operating system. 
> 
> 32-bit file systems typically(?) impose a 2GB limit on file size.
> I think it's this, not the process-address-space limit, that
> Stephen is referring to.

Only very old file systems. Most modern file systems can handle files
larger than 2GB.

The discussion recently has been around the 2GB process memory limit on
32-bit operating systems.

Ciao,
Gordon

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