Re: Copying and taring large amounts of data
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:15:33PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com> writes:
>
> > Many utilities still have 2GB file size limitation hidden somewhere,
> > even though kernel should be able to handle large files.
> >
> > So just do not listen to other posts suggesting "tar ..." or similar.
>
> The version of tar in woody doesn't have the 2GB limitation with a 2.4
> kernel. I don't know about the version in stable.
This is encouraging. But if a person is copying file from vfat to ext2,
isn't it more reasonable to copy 1-by-1. No permission needs to be
reserved anyway. Some filename limitations (codepage) may even cause
problem...
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