On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:33:35 +0200, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Actually I'm trying with zip, that fails if the file becomes bigger than 2 GB. > SInce I remember that, due to the i-node structure, unix cannot handle a file > greater than 2GB, I was wondering the problem was of the filesystem and not > of the program itself. However, before renouncing to use zip, is there > something I can do on the filesystem to handle bigger files? The limitation was lifted quite a while ago. It could be an old format of the filesystem that still lives with the limitation, or it could be a limitation in the version of zip that you use. I use tar, so I'm not sure when or if the 2G limitation was fixed in zip (I have a hard time believing it wasn't). Make sure your reiserfs is sufficiently new format. I can't remember when reiserfs began support of files >2G, but anything v3 should certainly be capable, and probably anything v2. ext3, IIRC, has always supported >2G files, so the support for 2G files is at least as old as ext3. thornton - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
