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Re: ext3 filesize problem

From Greg Russell <me@invalid.org>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: ext3 filesize problem
Date 2012-02-04 04:40 +0000
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On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:55:59 +0000, J G Miller wrote in
jghhkv$on1$1@dont-email.me :

> On Friday, February 3rd, 2012, at 19:39:13h +0000, Greg Russell wrote:
> 
>> but why motion should limit an mpeg file to 2GB is still not
>> understandable to me
> 
> Well in another post, Stan has suggested the reason is due to the 32 bit
> limit if you are using a 32 bit version of motion.

Yes, ... and I find that reasoning to be inadequate and unconvincing. 2 
GB is not a limit on a 32-bit ext3 filesystem.

Other programs such as ffmpeg have no such limits when creating mpeg 
files on the same filesystem.

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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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