"Jonathan B. Bayer" wrote:
>
> Monday, September 17, 2001, 3:49:34 AM, dnade wrote:
> >
> > I have to make some big tar.gz files (over nfs) and it seems that i
> > got a 4GB limit..
>
> That is not a limitation on the Tar program. It is a limitation of
> the filesystem. While the filesystem can be more than 4 gig in size,
> the max size for a single file is 4 gig.
You might want to try other filesystems for which this restriction might
not be valid. Into mind comes XFS http://oss.sgi.com/xfs/ , JFS from
IBM, and ReiserFS. I don't know what maximal file size applies to each
of them, sorry.
Best regards,
Martin Stricker
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