From: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2GB max file size
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:33:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200503291733.35809.fluca1978@infinito.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20050329160147.049ed668@127.0.0.1>
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 17:06 Carl's cat walking on the keyboard wrote:
> Luca,
>
> tar will handle input files greater than 2GB.
>
> I use files greater than 2GB on a RedHat 8 system with
> a generic 2.4.20 kernel and tar (version = tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25)
>
> I can also use dump/restore for backing up to tape.
>
Actually I'm trying with zip, that fails if the file becomes bigger than 2 GB.
SInce I remember that, due to the i-node structure, unix cannot handle a file
greater than 2GB, I was wondering the problem was of the filesystem and not
of the program itself. However, before renouncing to use zip, is there
something I can do on the filesystem to handle bigger files?
Luca
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Luca Ferrari,
fluca1978@infinito.it
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[not found] <5.2.1.1.0.20050329160147.049ed668@127.0.0.1>
2005-03-29 15:33 ` Luca Ferrari [this message]
2005-03-29 16:02 ` 2GB max file size Thornton Prime
2005-04-02 12:35 ` Glynn Clements
2005-03-29 14:50 Luca Ferrari
2005-03-29 15:00 ` Thornton Prime
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