Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:27:28 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> Cc: Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file size Message-ID: <20001002092728.A18872@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010020554230.10965-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos.net>; from "Francisco Reyes" on Mon Oct 2 06:18:20 GMT 2000 References: <20000930160209.A28627@dan.emsphone.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010020554230.10965-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos.net>
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In the last episode (Oct 02), Francisco Reyes said: > On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Sep 30), Rick Knebel said: > > > 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? > > > > should be able to create a file as large as your filesystem. > > Any changes needed in the kernel? I had some gzip files crash because > I went over the 2GB file size limit on 4.0 Release with a GENERIC > kernel. If you had a crash, it wasn't due to that. You might get a "invalid compressed data--length mismatch" error when uncompressing a file over 2gb, because the internal gzip headers only store a 32-bit filesize for the uncompressed file, but FreeBSD itself doesn't care. -- 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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