also sprach Christoph Simon (on Tue, 03 Jul 2001 04:54:15PM -0300):
> Well, you can remove it. And then, before restoring it from tape
> again, try to get large file support in the kernel. Maybe there are
> other ways, but installing 2.4.x (and updating the utilities) should
> be enough.

nope:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt$ uname -a
Linux piper 2.4.5 #1 Mon Jul 2 18:46:48 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt$ dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024k count=2060
2060+0 records in
2060+0 records out
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt$ ls -la
ls: testfile: Value too large for defined data type
total 8
[...]

2.4.5 apparently can't handle > 2Gb files, and as someone said, this
is most likely a filesystem issue anyway...

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