On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 01:45:21 +0100, Alan J. Flavell
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>On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, csieh wrote:
>
>> Stefano,
>>
>> I create files that big all the time.
>
>I had no problem creating such files with e.g the tar command,
>
>But when I tried piping program output with e.g >>file.name ,
>it expired at the 2GB boundary.  Is this perhaps a limitation
>in the shell, rather than in the filesystem itself?
>
>cheers

Alan,

you are right, I can create big (>2Gb) files using the tar command
and create big ISO images for dvd writing,
but, as you said, I can not create files bigger than 2Gb
piping program output to a file ( ./program > file.name )
and I can not download a DVD iso image bigger than 2Gb ( i tried
both wget and mozilla). So it must be application-dependent.