Record Length

[taousif]

Hi,

Can any body tell me what is record length of file in common terms ?

[meton_magis]

record length isn't a term I've heard outside of mainframe computing. On IBM S/360 (and decendents) you have to specify the record length of output datasets. It's basicaly a maximum filesize.

Those don't really exist in Linux. If the filesystem has space, and you have permissions, 1 file can use up all the space there is.

the one exception is filesystems that are 32bit length (such as microsoft's vfat.) They have a limitation of 4GB per file (2^32 == 4GB.) But common day filesystems (such as ext3, and ext4) on linux are all 64 bit.... I think .... at least you don't have this problem.