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==Details==
Traditionally, many operating systems and their underlying [[file system]] implementations used [[32-bit]] [[integer]]s to represent [[computer file|file]] sizes and positions. Consequently, no file could be larger than 2<sup>32</sup> − 1 bytes (4 GiB − 1). In many implementations, the problem was exacerbated by treating the sizes as [[Sign (mathematics)|signed]] numbers, which further lowered the limit to 2<sup>31</sup> − 1 bytes (2 GiB − 1). Files that were too large for 32-bit operating systems to handle came to be known as ''large files''.
While the limit was quite acceptable at a time when [[hard disk]]s were smaller, the general increase in storage capacity combined with increased server and desktop file usage, especially for [[database]] and [[multimedia]] files, led to intense pressure for OS vendors to overcome the limitation.
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