Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Miquel! > >On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >> Also ext2 and ext3 support 64-bit filesizes just fine and have done >> so for years. They are very stable filesystems, while reiser is >> experimental. Rei

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread Elizabeth Barham
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > oh well, she's not coming back anyway it seems. better that way i > guess. > > she'd be the kinda person though to spread bad words about debian > now... and i hate that. It sounded, though, as she was frustrated by her current problem. Considering

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread ben
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 02:33 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > she'd be the kinda person though to spread bad words about debian now... > and i hate that. i wouldn't worry about it, since she'll probably go about that the same way and run out of an audience really fast.

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.2230 +0100]: > >cassandra: you are welcome to come back to the forum and ask your > >questions in a reasonable form and manner. if we aren't offended by you, > >we are more than happy to do our best at helping you! > > I'm guessing she has

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread John Griffiths
> >that being said, and acknowledging that we aren't really nice now >either, > >cassandra: you are welcome to come back to the forum and ask your >questions in a reasonable form and manner. if we aren't offended by you, >we are more than happy to do our best at helping you! I'm guessing she hasn'

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.1939 +0100]: > > for this particular user, i'd consider it all but threatening. it would > > be a relief! > > poor cassandra is at that threshold point of conceding that she herself is > the source of her own ignorance. who knows? maybe she'll make

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread ben
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 09:48 am, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach The Doctor What <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.1711 +0100]: > > 4) Threatening (Switch your server to Windows, I really don't care, > >just make sure you pay Microsoft) > > for this particular user, i'd consider it all

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach The Doctor What <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.1711 +0100]: > 4) Threatening (Switch your server to Windows, I really don't care, >just make sure you pay Microsoft) for this particular user, i'd consider it all but threatening. it would be a relief! -- martin; (gree

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread The Doctor What
* Cassandra Lynette Ludwig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020115 21:54]: > partion as ext2 cannot handle large files. It can and does. > > Is your fileserver on Windows? If that is the case you will have a > > problem since Windows filesystems suffer the 2GB limit, as far as I know > > (maybe recent NTFS

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Emil Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.1607 +0100]: > You _could_ use e.g. google to search for some file splitter running > under windows. Actually you could also try this link: > > http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/ > > but since you assume all men are evil/stupid you pr

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread Emil Pedersen
> > I cannot split the video data into multiple files - this is not text it is > > compressed DVI data. If you do not know the file format, do not suggest > > options like this. > > Sure you can. Once you've got the (DVI?) data into a large file, use a > file splitter (dd would do it on Linux,

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Cassandra Lynette Ludwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.0438 +0100]: > (A side note - the mailer that is used here seems to cause problems in > outlook express... I can hear the screams from here, but I don't > always have time to switch between all four hundred email folders on > my

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Cassandra Lynette Ludwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.0442 +0100]: > Did you read the initial message? For those who have not read it, or > are unable to read english here is it detailed (I hate having to do > this for men all the time *sigh*) quite a statement, hey! yes, i did re

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Miquel! On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Also ext2 and ext3 support 64-bit filesizes just fine and have done > so for years. They are very stable filesystems, while reiser is > experimental. Reiser can be unstable (I've seen filesystems go > up in smoke) and it *especially*

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Upgrading your kernel to 2.4 and using ReiserFS will give you the 64-bit >filesystem, but your libc may not be compiled to support large files. Also ext2 and ext3 support 64-bit filesizes just fine and have done so for

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Someone mentioned sending the files via HTTP. Is it possible to set up an Apache WebServer with mod_dav (WebDAV) running on it? If your Windows machine has "Web Folders" (see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q195851 ) it might be possible to put the dav directory (and sub-dir

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:38:07PM -0800, Cassandra Lynette Ludwig wrote: > My files are on the windows machine, I want to put them on my linux server > on a reiserfs partition as Linux cannot handle larger than 2gb files on an > ext2 filesystem. Large files should work just fine on ext2 - the f

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-15 Thread Keith Willoughby
Cassandra Lynette Ludwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did you read the initial message? For those who have not read it, or are > unable to read english here is it detailed (I hate having to do this for > men all the time *sigh*) > > Machine with files - Windows 98 Workstation Nowhere in your

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-15 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:43:29PM -0800, Cassandra Ludwig wrote: > I haven't tried Coda... I will try it, when I can figure out how to set it > up on the server :-) > > But I just found (through a quick test, just to see) that if I use smbclient > from the server, I can grab the file off the wind

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-15 Thread Ron Johnson
William T Wilson wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Cassandra Lynette Ludwig wrote: [snip] one of them is running Linux, but you don't even say that clearly. If I were as sexist as you I would say that women cannot write clearly because they expect men to read their minds. So. how long have y

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-15 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Cassandra Lynette Ludwig wrote: > Obviously you didn't read the message, I had said I had upgraded to > 2.4.17 to get reiserfs as ext2 cannot handle such large files. I was only going to flame you once but this message deserves two. > I cannot split the video data into multi

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-15 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Cassandra Lynette Ludwig wrote: > Did you read the initial message? For those who have not read it, or > are unable to read english here is it detailed (I hate having to do > this for men all the time *sigh*) Yes, I read it carefully. Nowhere in the message do you say which

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-15 Thread Ron Johnson
If you had explained it this lucidly and succinctly the 1st time, we wouldn't have been so confused. Cassandra Lynette Ludwig wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, William T Wilson wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Cassandra Ludwig wrote: Now I have tried dumping via NFS (using windows NFS systems *shudde

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-15 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:42:59PM -0800, Cassandra Lynette Ludwig wrote (0.40): > I cannot split the video data into multiple files - this is not text it is > compressed DVI data. If you do not know the file format, do not suggest > options like this. Sure you can. Once you've got the (DVI?)

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-15 Thread John Griffiths
> >Don't annoy me anymore with messages as un thought out as this. It feels >like the sort of responses I used to get from the Redhat technical support >team. > >Regards, > Cassandra The difference being this is a volunteer list and RH tech support is paid. So maybe you should try being

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-15 Thread Cassandra Lynette Ludwig
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, William T Wilson wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Cassandra Ludwig wrote: > > > Now I have tried dumping via NFS (using windows NFS systems > > *shudder*), ftp, and even samba, but all of these drop dead at the 2gb > > limit. Samba refuses to even try sending the file. > > I a

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-15 Thread Cassandra Ludwig
nt: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 7:22 PM Subject: Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb) > On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 06:59:19PM -0800, Cassandra Ludwig wrote: > > Now I have tried dumping via NFS (using windows NFS systems *shudder*), ftp, > > and even samba, but all of these drop dead at the 2gb li

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-15 Thread Cassandra Lynette Ludwig
(A side note - the mailer that is used here seems to cause problems in outlook express... I can hear the screams from here, but I don't always have time to switch between all four hundred email folders on my system to check for new mail). On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > also spra

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-15 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Cassandra Ludwig wrote: > Now I have tried dumping via NFS (using windows NFS systems > *shudder*), ftp, and even samba, but all of these drop dead at the 2gb > limit. Samba refuses to even try sending the file. I am not entirely sure which system is running which OS. If th

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-15 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 04:08:01AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Cassandra Ludwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.0359 +0100]: > > This is where I hit a problem. The ext2 filesystem happens to have a 2Gb > > limit for filesizes, so first problem hit there. Then after upgrading the >

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-15 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 06:59:19PM -0800, Cassandra Ludwig wrote: > Now I have tried dumping via NFS (using windows NFS systems *shudder*), ftp, > and even samba, but all of these drop dead at the 2gb limit. Samba refuses > to even try sending the file. That's not so good Have you tried using

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Cassandra Ludwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.0359 +0100]: > This is where I hit a problem. The ext2 filesystem happens to have a 2Gb > limit for filesizes, so first problem hit there. Then after upgrading the > kernel in the server to a 2.4 kernel (2.4.17) I changed the storage >