Large file transfer

mark ebaugh mebaugh at earthlink.net
Thu May 29 18:47:12 EDT 2003


Well this is exactly why I brought the question here. I was hoping that 
there was something simple being overlooked.  As this is a temporary move , 
we really dont want to upgrade the kernel , and it had been suggested the 
the mount through smb or NFS could both be the culprit. scp being the issue 
was something that had not been considered yet.

The funny part is , as has been hinted to , this is a backup. The mac is 
not on the corporate backup and was running its own backup program (with 
some very strangely configured rules) and storing them on a second drive , 
which is now _very_ full. To fix the larger issue without chance of losing 
anything this file must be stored elsewhere for a few weeks.

I hope you all get a laugh at this too , thanks for the ideas.
-Mark


At 04:57 PM 5/29/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, 29 May 2003, at 3:24pm, tom at buskey.name wrote:
> > You need to upgrade the kernel(?) as that's where the 2GB file limit is.
>
>   Just to really make your day, one can encounter a 2 GB limit in:
>
>   - The filesystem you're using
>   - The kernel VFS layer
>   - The kernel driver for the filesystem you're using
>   - The C library
>   - Userland utilities (like "cp")
>   - Network protocols (like "NFS" or "SMB" or "AppleShare")
>   - Implementations of said protocols (like "Samba" or "Netatalk")
>
>   Find exactly which limit(s) you are hitting can be tedious.




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