Way around 2GB file size limit

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
>>What is the easiest way around the 2GB file size limit?
> 
> Use a 2.4.x kernel with a recent glibc.

Good. RH9 shouldn't be the problem then. (But in all headers I've looked 
at it appears file pointers are defined as 32 bit.)

>>I'm hitting it pretty regularly when doing full backup sets of Winders
>>boxes.
> 
> The key word there would be winders.

Your intuition is right. The problem was in the toy backup app in Win98, 
not in samba. It took the 8.8GB file fine once I got that out of the 
loop. I'll just have to figure out a simple way to do the full backup 
via a "pull" from Linux instead of a "push" from Winders.

Thanks,
Michael