I thought this was no longer a problem as of the 2.4 kernels, but: I'm
having problems creating a file larger than 2 gigabytes (2^31 bytes).

I'm doing this on a Reiser partition. I'm running Debian unstable with
kernel 2.4.19-rc1.

First I was backing things up, and tar choked when the tarball hit 2GB.
Thinking that perhaps it was a tar problem, I took a file that's over a
gigabyte (call it "fred"), copied it a file called "huge", then tried this:

cat fred >> huge

...which would create a >2GB file, and hoped that would somehow get around
the problem, but it didn't. :(

The reiser website says that it'll handle files that are something like
17.6TB. Is this a problem with tar or cat or something?

Thanks,

Dan

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