diff --git a/components/files/constrainedfilestream.cpp b/components/files/constrainedfilestream.cpp
index 23eab2088..3e5d0c245 100644
--- a/components/files/constrainedfilestream.cpp
+++ b/components/files/constrainedfilestream.cpp
@@ -5,13 +5,16 @@
 
 #include "lowlevelfile.hpp"
 
-namespace Files
+namespace
 {
+// somewhat arbitrary though 64KB buffers didn't seem to improve performance any
+const size_t sBufferSize = 4096;
+}
 
+namespace Files
+{
     class ConstrainedFileStreamBuf : public std::streambuf
     {
-        // somewhat arbitrary though 64KB buffers didn't seem to improve performance any
-        static const size_t sBufferSize = 4096;
 
         size_t mOrigin;
         size_t mSize;