On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 at 12:30pm, Mike Cathey wrote

> The annyoing thing about using this hack is that if you have to use 
> amflush (something goes wrong), then it (amflush) gives you errors about 
> removing cruft files for all of the files that split creates.  An 
> ingenious hack nonetheless... :)
> 
> If you have the disk space, you could switch the holding partition to 
> ReiserFS or maybe ext3 (it supports files larger than 2GB right?)

ext2 supports >2GB files.  The problem lies in glibc and the kernel being 
compiled with the proper support.  RH7.0 wasn't compiled this way, 7.1+ 
were.  So another FS won't help.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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