Re: Joining Large Files

[bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx)]

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From: Mirek Dobsicek <m.dobsicek@sh.cvut.cz>
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 20:07:19 +0200
To: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
Subject: Re: Joining Large Files

oops, I tried it on my Sarge box, with own compiled
kernel 2.4.18 and it gave me only 2GB large file.

What can be wrong?

		Elfi

Bob Proulx wrote:
>Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen <ken@fiona-victor.com> [2002-09-07 18:30:55 
>+0200]:
>
>
>>Does Woody handle files over 2GB? Or any other debian distro?
>
>
>Yes.  At least the 2.4 kernel version of woody.  You can always try it
>and deduce this yourself.  The simplest way is to use 'dd'.
>
>  time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/largefile bs=1M count=2560
>
>  ls -lh /tmp/largefile
>  -rw-r--r--    1 bob      bob          2.5G Sep  7 11:46 /tmp/largefile
>
>Expect that to take a few minutes because unless you have a lot of
>memory it will be running at disk drive speeds.  On my machine that
>took 45 seconds and left a 2.5 GB file.  The largefile boundary is
>2^31 bits or 2 GB so anything that can produce files bigger than that
>is large file capable.
>
>Bob



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