On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:15:33PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Many utilities still have 2GB file size limitation hidden somewhere, > > even though kernel should be able to handle large files. > > > > So just do not listen to other posts suggesting "tar ..." or similar. > > The version of tar in woody doesn't have the 2GB limitation with a 2.4 > kernel. I don't know about the version in stable.
This is encouraging. But if a person is copying file from vfat to ext2, isn't it more reasonable to copy 1-by-1. No permission needs to be reserved anyway. Some filename limitations (codepage) may even cause problem... -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D Visit Debian reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/ There are 6 files: index.{en|fr|it}.html quick-reference.{en|fr|it}.txt I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections.
