files larger than 2 GB

files larger than 2 GB

Post by KCLO » Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:00:00



Hi,

I have a veritas file system installed in the Solaris 2.6 machine with
the largefile option enabled.  I can create a large file(>2 GB) inside
the file system by using mkfile 3g xx.  Howeve, I got problem in using
tar and gzip which reported "
Value too large for defined data type"

Any ideas?

Thanks

 
 
 

files larger than 2 GB

Post by Alan Coopersmi » Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:00:00



>I have a veritas file system installed in the Solaris 2.6 machine with
>the largefile option enabled.  I can create a large file(>2 GB) inside
>the file system by using mkfile 3g xx.  Howeve, I got problem in using
>tar and gzip which reported "
>Value too large for defined data type"

>Any ideas?

gzip 1.2.4 doesn't support files > 2gb - you need the alpha of gzip
1.3.0 for that - it's available from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/

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1. Files larger than 2 GB on Intel/Linux

Someone started a thread with this very appropriate subject. But I
did not see any relevant answers to the topic. So let me raise
it again. We are about the by a really big Alpha server with some 3GB
of RAM  and 40 or so GB of disk space. What are our chances of
being able to handle files larger than 2GB?

This will certainly be a requirement if Linux is to make inroads in
high end computing.

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