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I had the same problem when backing up my wife's system. Although I am now on a 2.4 kernel, when I bought my wife a new system, I decided to use rsysnc and just maintain a mirror of her system. On 30 Oct 2001, at 15:24, Matthew J. Brodeur wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, E. Wiliam Horne wrote: > > > "... there is a serious restriction in that a file in an ext2 > > filesystem on hardware > > with 32-bit integers cannot be larger than 2 GiB". > > > > So, the question: is there a way around this, short of making multiple > > TAR files? > > I believe this limitation disappeared (or changed) in the 2.4 kernel. > On a machine with 2.4.9: > [root at localhost root]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test-file bs=1M count=4096 > 4096+0 records in > 4096+0 records out > [root at localhost root]# ls -lh > - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0G Oct 30 12:07 test-file > > On another machine I managed to create a file of ~70GB while > benchmarking the disks. > If 2.4 isn't an option, Google seems to indicate that there are (were?) > projects to implement workarounds in 2.2. This link looks promising: > http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html > > > - -- > -Matt > > No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE73wx7c8/WFSz+GKMRAnMgAKCMyub+5y4wA2Xt8RVV7BttjknjTQCffjw6 > PlOIyZL6t9+3pdyMaaxQyhk= > =66r2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org
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