[OSM-talk] planet file size limit

[Jonas Svensson]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, David Earl wrote:

> Perhaps someone has already thought about this, but I notice that the
> planet.osm file is 3.5Gb at the moment, so it won't be very long before it
> reaches the 4Gb file size limit typical of many disks (e.g. FAT32 - i.e.
> most USB hard disks) and things like compression programs will start to blow
> up too (can bz2 files cope with a file > 4Gb?).

I beleive it was larger than 4GB when the TIGERDATA were included.

/Jonas