On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 08:02, Michael O'Donnell wrote: > Very descriptive. What "dies" ? > > I believe that, in general, recent kernels > and libraries do now support large files, but > many of the apps need to be modified to use the > new interfaces and types (fpos_t and friends) > instead of just "int" to represent file sizes...
Sorry for the lack of description. I didn't want to get into too much detail, since it is a bit embarrassing.... I'm doing a Windows backup to a samba mount. I get write failures at the 2GB point. I believe that it is actually a limit in the ext2 FS. I don't know if ext3 changes this. Thanks, Kenny -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Tact is just *not* saying true stuff" -- Cordelia Chase Kenneth E. Lussier Sr. Systems Administrator Zuken, USA PGP KeyID CB254DD0 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCB254DD0 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
