[OpenAFS] backups

Toens Bueker toens.bueker@gmx.net
Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:29:45 +0200


Clare West <clare@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

> [snip - backup aks for a new file after 2GB]
>
> OK I'm an idiot - ext2 has a 2GB file size limit - doh

That's only true for x86 architectures. 64-bit architectures don't have such a
limit. Provided you have a recent versions of ext2, a recent libc and a recent
(2.4.x) kernel with largefile support, you should be able to cross the 2GB
border ...

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