Here is my result with perl 5.8.4 on OS X.
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 34000000 Aug 6 10:14 this
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 2097152 Aug 6 10:45 this.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 2097152 Aug 6 10:45 this.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 2097152 Aug 6 10:45 this.10
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 2097152 Aug 6 10:45 this.11
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 2097152 Aug 6 10:45 this.12
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 2097152 Aug 6 10:45 this.13
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 2097152 Aug 6 10:45 this.14
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 2097152 Aug 6 10:45 this.15
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 445568 Aug 6 10:45 this.16
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 2097152 Aug 6 10:45 this.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 2097152 Aug 6 10:45 this.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 2097152 Aug 6 10:45 this.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 2097152 Aug 6 10:45 this.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 2097152 Aug 6 10:45 this.6
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 2097152 Aug 6 10:45 this.7
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 2097152 Aug 6 10:45 this.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 borisz wheel 2097152 Aug 6 10:45 this.9