On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Dan Drake wrote: > 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? What version of glibc? -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500