Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 00:49:42 +0200 From: Markus Stumpf <maex-freebsd-hackers@Space.Net> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: couple of questions Message-ID: <19980805004942.L12619@space.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980804135200.25224A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>; from Brett Taylor on Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 02:05:31PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980804135200.25224A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 02:05:31PM -0600, Brett Taylor wrote:
> - maximum file/partition size:
>
> - I've seen files (from an ls -l emailed to me) of ~ 7 GB, but
> I'm not sure what the absolute maximum file size is. Is there
> a hard limit?
Hmmm ... this is from man 2 intro (2.2.6-RELEASE)
> 27 EFBIG File too large. The size of a file exceeded the maximum (about
> 2.1E9 bytes).
This is 2 GB, right? But I've heard NetBSD has bigger files.
\Maex
N.B. This 2 GB always hits me with backups of large partitions that don't
compress well. Still using amanda-2.3.0, however, amanda-2.4.0 is able
to handle this with artificial splits.
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