On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Dan Drake wrote:
> I thought this was no longer a problem as of the 2.4 kernels, but: I'm
> having problems creating a file larger than 2 gigabytes (2^31 bytes).
>
> I'm doing this on a Reiser partition. I'm running Debian unstable with
> kernel 2.4.19-rc1.
>
> First I was backing things up, and tar choked when the tarball hit
> 2GB. Thinking that perhaps it was a tar problem, I took a file that's
> over a gigabyte (call it "fred"), copied it a file called "huge", then
> tried this:
>
> cat fred >> huge
>
> ...which would create a >2GB file, and hoped that would somehow get
> around the problem, but it didn't. :(
>
> The reiser website says that it'll handle files that are something
> like 17.6TB. Is this a problem with tar or cat or something?

What version of glibc?

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