In a message dated: 15 Jan 2002 10:48:53 EST
"Ken D'Ambrosio" said:
>> The "vast majority of users" have single files larger than 2 GB? ;-)
>
>No... leastwise, not usually. But more than once, I've been tarring
>some directory or other... and found that my tar finished at 2147483647
>bytes. Whereupon I had to go and find some other way to do what I was
>doing. Go ahead and tell me that this hasn't happened to you. With
>2.4, it suddenly becomes a non-issue, which is *very* nice.
And to add to that, if you have a network of systems you want to back
up, it's really nice to have a few spare gig to use as a holding disk
to store dumps on. I set amanda to use 4 and 6 gig "chunks" for file
storage. I will probably bump this up to equal the average size of
my file systems if I can, since the few files you have to flush to
tape the more efficient things are.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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...we don't need to be perfect to be the best around,
and we never stop trying to be better.
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