From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 7:29: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0236137B503 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 07:28:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA02122; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:27:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:27:28 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Francisco Reyes Cc: Rick Knebel , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file size Message-ID: <20001002092728.A18872@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20000930160209.A28627@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.9i In-Reply-To: ; from "Francisco Reyes" on Mon Oct 2 06:18:20 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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