On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, copying a file over 2Gb results in the error "File size limit exceeded"

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Issue

  • On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, copying a file over 2Gb results in the error "File size limit exceeded":
# ls -lh filename.dat  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38M Nov 29  2008 filename.dat  
# cp filename.dat tmp.dat  
File size limit exceeded  
# ulimit -f  
1024

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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