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Well... Fat32 FSs don't support files > 2GB

But yeah, it's silly.



Somehow, I imagine they are not hosting these off FAT32 filesystems.

Maybe it's IIS that isn't very good with partial HTTP requests... ;-)


FAT32 is common on portable storage (SD cards, USB 'thumb' drives), especially when cross-platform support is a concern.


I understand that FAT32 has a role in portable storage. What I fail to understand is the relation between USB drives and serving VM images.


Sneakernet moving of files to non-network connected devices.


And how common would that use case be when we are talking about virtual machines used in web development?


Very common

Copying a 4GB file through a congested wi-fi connection may be very slow

It's easier and faster to copy to a good USB drive


Or, uh, use cat6.




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