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Re: ext3 filesize problem

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On Saturday 04 February 2012 08:14, Greg Russell conveyed the following 
to comp.os.linux.misc...

> On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:57:04 +0100, Aragorn wrote in
> jgihbg$dov$1@dont-email.me :
> 
>> On Saturday 04 February 2012 06:23, Greg Russell conveyed the
>> following to comp.os.linux.misc...
>> 
>>> On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:47:06 +0100, Aragorn wrote in
>>> jgid8b$vrm$1@dont-email.me :
>>> 
>>>> On Saturday 04 February 2012 05:40, Greg Russell conveyed the
>>>> following to comp.os.linux.misc...
>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, ... and I find that reasoning to be inadequate and
>>>>> unconvincing. 2 GB is not a limit on a 32-bit ext3 filesystem.
>>>> 
>>>> No, but it may be and often is the limit of /certain/ 32-bit
>>>> _applications_ [*].  It has nothing to do with the ext3 filesystem.
>>>> 
>>>> [*] The following pertains to web browsers and download utilities,
>>>>     but it's a useful bit of information...:
>>>>     http://www.kernel.org/faq/#largefiles
>>> 
>>> No, it's not useful at all in explaining why motion limits itself to
>>> a 2GB output filesize on a filesystem that isn't 2GB-limited; it has
>>> no relation to the topic under discussion.
>> 
>> It explains why certain applications are known to limit the size of a
>> downloaded file to 2 GB ...
> 
> No, it certainly doesn't.

Sheesh man, it literally says that some applications are limited to 2 GB 
only.  That's the part you had to retain.  How difficult is that?

>> Apparently "motion" - or at least, the 32-bit version of it - cannot
>> handle files larger than 2 GB.  Buffer size, checkpoints, et al.  It
>> is not - repeat: not - a limitation of the filesystem, but instead it
>> is a limitation of the application.
> 
> <sigh> ... good, good, you're starting to address the issue, albeit
> quite obliquely.

It's what I have been saying all along.  I'll repeat the quote...

>>>> No, but it may be and often is the limit of /certain/ 32-bit
>>>> _applications_ [*].  It has nothing to do with the ext3 filesystem.

See?

>> There are editors which suffer from the same limitation. ...
> 
> <sigh> ... and what limitation is that wrt "motion"?

I don't know why "motion" has that limitation, but apparently it does.  
If you want to know why it happens to have this limitation or how to 
circumvent it, talk to the developer(s).

-- 
= Aragorn =
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

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ext3 filesize problem Greg Russell <me@invalid.org> - 2012-01-21 23:53 +0000
  Re: ext3 filesize problem J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-01-22 00:43 +0000
    Re: ext3 filesize problem Stan Bischof <stan@worldbadminton.com> - 2012-01-23 16:24 +0000
      Re: ext3 filesize problem J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-01-23 18:03 +0000
    Re: ext3 filesize problem Greg Russell <me@invalid.org> - 2012-02-03 19:39 +0000
      Re: ext3 filesize problem J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-02-03 20:55 +0000
        Re: ext3 filesize problem Greg Russell <me@invalid.org> - 2012-02-04 04:40 +0000
          Re: ext3 filesize problem Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-02-04 05:47 +0100
            Re: ext3 filesize problem Greg Russell <me@invalid.org> - 2012-02-04 05:23 +0000
              Re: ext3 filesize problem Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-02-04 06:57 +0100
                Re: ext3 filesize problem Greg Russell <me@invalid.org> - 2012-02-04 07:14 +0000
                Re: ext3 filesize problem Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-02-04 08:32 +0100
                Re: ext3 filesize problem Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2012-02-04 09:15 +0100
                Re: ext3 filesize problem Harold Stevens <wookie@limbo.localdomain> - 2012-02-04 05:07 -0600
                Re: ext3 filesize problem Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-02-05 01:19 +0100
                Re: ext3 filesize problem Greg Russell <me@invalid.org> - 2012-02-05 01:34 +0000
                Re: ext3 filesize problem Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-02-04 07:47 -0600
                Re: ext3 filesize problem Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-02-04 15:24 +0000
                Re: ext3 filesize problem Greg Russell <me@invalid.org> - 2012-02-05 01:22 +0000
                Re: ext3 filesize problem J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-02-05 01:58 +0000
    Re: ext3 filesize problem Norman Peelman <npeelmandog@cfl.rr.com> - 2012-02-05 08:22 -0500

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