Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 16:02:10 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file size Message-ID: <20000930160209.A28627@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <p05001904b5fbfe9b9931@[192.168.1.2]>; from "Rick Knebel" on Sat Sep 30 16:36:14 GMT 2000 References: <p05001904b5fbfe9b9931@[192.168.1.2]>
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In the last episode (Sep 30), Rick Knebel said: > I am running a home network and am using redhat linux right now. When > i try to back my computers up to files on my redhat box , if the file > goes over 2.4 Gigs or so it tells me that the file is full. People > on the redhat list tell me that it is because there is a limit on how > large a file can be on linux right now. Is there this type of limit > with freebsd? FreeBSD has supported 64-bit file sizes for at least 6 years. You should be able to create a file as large as your filesystem. I have a 15gb datafile on one of my machines at the moment, and have created 25gb ones in the past with no problems. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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