Zip large file support in Fedora

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Running Fedora 39. Zip seems to be built with large file support:

This is Zip 3.0 (July 5th 2008), by Info-ZIP
...
Compiled with gcc 13.2.1 20230728 (Red Hat 13.2.1-1) for Unix (Linux ELF) on Sep 18 2023.

Zip special compilation options:
        USE_EF_UT_TIME       (store Universal Time)
        BZIP2_SUPPORT        (bzip2 library version 1.0.8, 13-Jul-2019)
            bzip2 code and library copyright (c) Julian R Seward
            (See the bzip2 license for terms of use)
        SYMLINK_SUPPORT      (symbolic links supported)
        LARGE_FILE_SUPPORT   (can read and write large files on file system)
        ZIP64_SUPPORT        (use Zip64 to store large files in archives)
        UNICODE_SUPPORT      (store and read UTF-8 Unicode paths)
... etc

Yet a zip archive operation fails when the archize size reaches 4.1G. AFAIK zip should be able to handle this.

adding: Documents/xxx/xxx/xxx...
zip I/O error: File too large
zip error: Output file write failure (write error on zip file)

Is this a bug or a feature?

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But what filesystem is the zip writing to when the error showed? Zip can support 64bit Large file all it wants but it’s worthless if the FS it’s writing to is something like VFAT (32bit) file system the quits at 4GB

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