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

Fri Oct 20 20:13:01 UTC 2006
Tony Schreiner <schreian at bc.edu>

On Oct 20, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 14:44 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> No, this case is strictly an apache thing. the ext3 file size
>> limitation is larger than 5G
>>
>
> Right ... the apache is compiled without large file support ...
>
> and before anyone asks ... NO, we won't compile apache with large file
> support ... apache 2.0 with large file support breaks many ABIs and it
> is not enterprise quality :)
>

Just FYI, I compiled version 2.2 from apache.org and am running it in  
parallel on another port. I am able to download my large file that way.

Thanks for all the replies.
Tony