Windows 2000 2 GB file limit

[Fairlight]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:04:58PM -0500, Jay Ashworth, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> 
> 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*.

But AFAIK, you have to manually select vfat32 under the others--NTFS is the
default.  A fine distinction, but you have a point.

> 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.

Actually, there is software that can get around that limitation.  LOTS of
it.  :)  I remember a reference of going up to at least 4GB.

mark->
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