File sizes

[Kenneth E. Lussier]

On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 08:02, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
> Very descriptive.  What "dies" ?
> 
> I believe that, in general, recent kernels
> and libraries do now support large files, but
> many of the apps need to be modified to use the
> new interfaces and types (fpos_t and friends)
> instead of just "int" to represent file sizes...

Sorry for the lack of description. I didn't want to get into too much
detail, since it is a bit embarrassing.... I'm doing a Windows backup to
a samba mount. I get write failures at the 2GB point. I believe that it
is actually a limit in the ext2 FS. I don't know if ext3 changes this.

Thanks,
Kenny  
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