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From: Thornton Prime <theoszi@gmail.com>
To: fluca1978@infinito.it
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2GB max file size
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:00:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2d7eccf50503290700374e0bbf@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503291650.11908.fluca1978@infinito.it>

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:50:11 +0200, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> wrote:
> I think there must be a solution for that "roof" of 2 GB for a single file. It
> will be great, since my backups are often bigger than 2 GB so I cannot
> zip/tar them in a single file. Any suggestion?

The solution was implemented quite some time ago, I can't even recall
how long ago.  I regularly create 10G to 200G files on Linux with
standard tools.

What kernel/glibc/filesystem are you running?

thornton

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-29 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-29 14:50 2GB max file size Luca Ferrari
2005-03-29 15:00 ` Thornton Prime [this message]
     [not found] <5.2.1.1.0.20050329160147.049ed668@127.0.0.1>
2005-03-29 15:33 ` Luca Ferrari
2005-03-29 16:02   ` Thornton Prime
2005-04-02 12:35   ` Glynn Clements

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