Windows 2000 2 GB file limit

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:17:35PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Fairlight wrote:
> [...]
> > I'm not suggesting it, I'm flat-out -saying- it.  I'm staring at a 3.5gig
> > MPEG file which can be viewed completely--and was created here as well.
> > It's on a system with exactly what you cite--Windows 2000 with NTFS.
> > 
> > Windows 2000 with NTFS has -no- problems with files >2GB.
> [...]
> 
> Win9x systems (95, 98, and Me) have 2GB filesize limits.  NT-based systems
> (NT, XP, 2000, and 2003) do not have these limits.

This isn't strictly correct.

The limit is in the design of the filesystem, not in the underlying OS:
*any* OS will limit you to a 2GB filesize *on a FAT32 filesystem*.

Even NT.

There's a 1 or 2 GB limit on the associated AVI video files, to pick up
a tangent of Mark's other thread, but that is unrelated to the
filesystem the file lives on.

Cheers,
-- jra
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