On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:58:19PM -0700, Jeff.Lessem@Colorado.EDU wrote: > > I thought this limit was removed in for glibc 2.2. I did a > dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024k count=3072 and it worked fine. > Previously this blew up at 2GB. I am sure I am mistaken about some of > this, which is causing my problem. > You have to patch the 2.2.17 kernel or you have to use 2.4 kernel.