Files vs Disks (Score 1)

While we can access disks as file, the question that arise is, even though the IDE drivers have such large addressing capabilities, are the file handles and the file system able to support files, and I really say files here, larger than 4GB?

I remember creating a tarball file (due to a bug in tar) larger than 4GB and I couldn't even access/delete/unlink it anymore from my hard drive, linux would simply not allow it.