Peter Peltonen wrote:
>
> Statux wrote:
> >
> > Who on earth would have a 7GB file (unless it's a disk image).. sheesh.
>
> It's a backup tar-package of one of my hard drives.
>
> Is there a better way to accomplish what I'm trying to do:
>
> - made a backup with tar
>
> - i update it with tar every night
>
> Should I split it somehow to smaller packages or something?
>
> But to my original question:
>
> It seems I hadn't reached any file limits as I'm doing the copy operation
> again I have now 6.1G copied :)
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
> >
> > Anyway.. remember that many OS's and filesystems traditionally define a
> > file size limit of 2GB.. then it was increased a bit a while back..
> > possibly to 4GB like you're experiencing. <shrug>
> >
> > There has to be a limit somewhere, though. 7GB is insane for one file.
> >
> > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Peter Peltonen wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I tried to copy a file with size of 7G from a smbmounted Windows share to a
> > > Linux disk.
> > >
> > > It seems that the copying freezed at when 4.0G of the package was copied. Is
> > > there a some kind of size limit in Linux or Samba that freezes the copying
> > > process?
> > >
> > > I am running RH 6.2 with kernel 2.4.0 and Samba 2.0.7-4.
> > >
> > >
I was going to say that I thought that limit was raised considerably in
the 2.4 kernels and libs. THe limit indeed used to be 2GB but I don't
know what the limit is now. the sgi guy toold me at a show last year
that the port they were working on for thier jfs was in the terabyte
range or was it petabytes. Really big anyway. I have a feeling we are
going to get used to file sizes of this size at some point in the fairly
near future. High res video and datawarehousing come to mind. After
who all can rememnber when a 10MB hard drive seemed like a HUGE amount
of Storage? the mozilla code on my machine starts with 28MB in MEMORY!
Bret
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