[CentOS] file size limit in apache 2.0 on centos 4

Fri Oct 20 18:53:35 UTC 2006
Matthew Martz <mdmartz at gflug.net>

On Fri, October 20, 2006 2:36 pm, Brett Serkez wrote:
>> can someone confirm that there is a 4GB limit (or other) in the
>> standard apache 2.0 on CentOS 4?
>
> The file size limitation is in the file system type, ext3 is the
> default on CentOS.  There are other file system types that can be used
> in a partitiion, such as reiser, jfs, xfs, each with their own
> attributes.

On a side note the maximum file size for ext3 is partially dependent on
the block size selected during formatting.

>From what I can remember the following table depicts those limits.

Block size     Max file size
1KB 	       16GB
2KB 	       256GB
4KB 	       2TB
8KB 	       2TB

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Matthew Martz
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