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Add/restore FAQ about V8 related limit for ERR_FS_FILE_TOO_LARGE #42497

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https://nodejs.org/api/all.html#all_errors_err_fs_file_too_large

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The current doc does not help at all about error ERR_FS_FILE_TOO_LARGE. I would expect something useful in the official doc about it.

As you can see, there is no useful info about it for the complete nodejs.org domain https://www.google.com/search?q=ERR_FS_FILE_TOO_LARGE+inurl%3Anodejs.org

It was previously mentioned in the Joyent wiki FAQ (e.g https://stackoverflow.com/a/29767502/768440) and content had been killed in more recent repo to be replaced by nothing. I can understand the issue is on the V8 side in fact but as Node.js uses by default V8 (I'm aware it can run on ChakraCore), I would expect something helpful in the doc about using streaming and maybe a default recipe to solve the issue as it's a quite common pain.

In fact, mentioning in a FAQ also the usage about https://nodejs.org/api/all.html#all_cli_--max-old-space-sizesize-in-megabytes would be appreciated. I can open another issue if required

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