Paul Berube wrote: > > security.intrusion wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> On an end, >> OpenSSH_3.4p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, Openssl 0x0090605f on a Windows >> 2000 Server. >> >> on the other end, >> OpenSSH_4.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7g 11 Apr 2005 on a FreeBSD 5.4-Stable. >> >> for backup purposes, we transfer a large file from the second to first >> weekly. When file size exceeds 2 G >> > So: copying from BSD to Windows, and sftp and scp both fail for files > > 2GB? > I'm pretty sure some windows file systems don't support files larger > than 2GB. NTFS should be OK (I have >2GB files on my machine with > NTFS) but FAT32 could be a problem. I can't remember if it always has > a 2GB limit, or if the limit is dependent on the block size you chose > when you formatted the drive. I'm sure google knows :) > Windows has an NTFS filesystem, i have already checked about the file size limit on ntfs. it says 16 TB, even using FAT says 4 G per file. but one can not be sure when using a non-deterministic system like windows :)
thanks in advance --
