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From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com> > In any event, no matter what I try, the most I can seem to get up to the IFS > is 4,293,918,720 bytes, which is exactly one meg (1,048,576 bytes) shy of > one true gigabyte (I will refer to this number as "1GB-1MB"). > > Checking, I found an IBM document > (http://www.as400.ibm.com/tstudio/tech_ref/syslimit/limitv45.pdf) purporting > that the supposed limit for IFS files in V4R5 is 256GB. But I also know > that 4GB is a magic number, being exactly 2^32. My question is this: is > there really a "phantom" upper limit of just under 4GB to file sizes on the > IFS? > I don't *know* the answer. It is perfectly possible that the limit in IFS is 256G, but that some of the programs (e.g. FTP) uses 32-bit unsigned integers and therefore get in trouble around 4G.
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