Very good article. It is a bit out of date though.

This is a 'little' more current:

http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html

I guess the short answer is (was) a file system limit of 16384 Gb but a more 
limiting kernel limit of 2 Tb.

Take a look at : http://www.reiserfs.org/

or better yet : http://www.reiserfs.org/faq.html#reiserfsspecs

Things are changing fast here. This page indicates that ReiserFS 3.6 supports 
up to 4G as the number of files, 2 G as the number of files per directory, 
17.6 Terabytes as a maximum file or filesystem size.

I think that I can safely say that most of us have enough space to hold our 
goodies all in one directory if we want.

Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> On Saturday 20 July 2002 11:18 pm, Elburn@aol.com wrote:
> 
>>What is the maximum file size in Linux
> 
> 
> Plug yor question into google and you'll get an answer. <g>
> 
> Linux Gazette has a good article about journaling file systems which includes 
> file size info here:
> 
> http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue55/florido.html
> 
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