From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 3:18: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95EB337B66E for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 03:15:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoraida.reyes.somos.net (zoraida.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.15]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA05338; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 06:06:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 06:18:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco Reyes To: Dan Nelson Cc: Rick Knebel , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file size In-Reply-To: <20000930160209.A28627@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message