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Date:      Wed, 5 Aug 1998 00:49:42 +0200
From:      Markus Stumpf <maex-freebsd-hackers@Space.Net>
To:        Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: couple of questions
Message-ID:  <19980805004942.L12619@space.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980804135200.25224A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>; from Brett Taylor on Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 02:05:31PM -0600
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980804135200.25224A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>

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On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 02:05:31PM -0600, Brett Taylor wrote:
> - maximum file/partition size:
> 
> 	- I've seen files (from an ls -l emailed to me) of ~ 7 GB, but 
> 	  I'm not sure what the absolute maximum file size is.  Is there 
> 	  a hard limit?

Hmmm ... this is from man 2 intro (2.2.6-RELEASE)

>     27 EFBIG File too large. The size of a file exceeded the maximum (about
>	  2.1E9 bytes).

This is 2 GB, right? But I've heard NetBSD has bigger files.

	\Maex

N.B. This 2 GB always hits me with backups of large partitions that don't
     compress well. Still using amanda-2.3.0, however, amanda-2.4.0 is able
     to handle this with artificial splits.
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