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Re: Subject: [debian-knoppix] beating ghost, Speed & Size Limit



Bill wrote:

> One thing that comes to mind is that Linux generally doesn't deal with files 
> over 2gb in size, does Debian?

Linux has no problem with files > 2 GB, since years.

> If not, then what happens is the file just keeps on copying, or some
> other random event. I've had the same problem copying a backup file
> from a windows machine that was 2.5gb. The copy stopped after a couple
> of hours when it has used the 17gb free space!

Windows FAT32 has a 2 GB limit, maybe Samba has such a limit, too. But
Linux (2.4.x with glibc-2.2.x) works fine with larger files.

Regards...
		Michael
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