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Re: large file support
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"Alan J. Flavell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Alan J. Flavell
Date:
Mon, 4 Oct 2004 01:45:21 +0100
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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

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