On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:25:01 +1100, Steven Haigh <netwiz AT crc.id DOT au> 
wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 13:33:57 -0500, Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU> wrote:
>> (file system), and that your Unix resource limit "filesize" is not
>> restricting the size.  Also beware file size limits for a chosen file
>> system type, which can be influenced by the block size chosen when the
>> file system was initialized.

I should also mention that the following is set for ulimit:

# ulimit -a
core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority             (-e) 0
file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals                 (-i) 24575
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 32
max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                      (-n) 1024
pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority              (-r) 0
stack size              (kbytes, -s) 10240
cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes              (-u) unlimited
virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks                      (-x) unlimited

These are all defaults. As such I didn't think about checking them before
until I re-read your message.

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