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From: Thornton Prime <theoszi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 2GB max file size
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:00:58 -0800
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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