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Re: Potato and files > 2G



On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 09:38:48PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> 	I am prepareing to replace an Amanda tapeserver, curretnly runig on HP-UX to a
> 	Debian machine. I am planing on using Potato, because this thing need to be
> 	rock solid.
> 
> 	Catch is, I need to be able to back up partitons that will be over 2G, even
> 	after compression. 
> 
> 	So waht do I need to do to make this happen?

Not a problem unless files > 2G. And I believe that's only a limitation
on x86 platform (not Alpha, Sparc, ...).  You could always put kernel
2.4.1 on the potato system (might need a few tweeks...).

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>



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