On 10/19/06, Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 10:39 -0700, Ted Unangst wrote:
> On 10/17/06, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There is no uniform way to ask the max file size of a given
> > file system. ffs filestems do have that info in therir superblock,
> > though, you can see it with dumpfs(8).
>
> it hardly matters. if the file is on the filesystem, the filesystem
> supports files of that size.
Isn't it possible, though, to split a file on one filesystem, writing
the pieces to another filesystem with a smaller maximum file size?
yes, but then it's still irrelevant how big a file the source
filesystem supports, which was the original question.
it either works or it doesn't. does cp check max file size? does
tar? does scp? ftp? firefox? mplayer? vi? split is not that
special.
