I would gamble your shell doesn't have support for files larger than 2GB.
You'll run into this with tcsh. :( The pipes created by the shell for
child processes will inherit this problem.
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Stuart Howard wrote:
Hi people
This question follows on from a post I made regarding a hard drive
death and backup problems, I made a little script that tar and gzip's
each of the root directories in order. At the point of /usr which is a
very large one I get the following error
/root/fullsysbackup.sh: line 30: 18492 File size limit exceededcp
/tmp/fullsysbackupusr.tgz
When checking the file size I see that it is approx 2.1Gb and to be
exact = 2^31 -1
After a fair bit of checking around into possible causes of the error
[samba, cp, backup box runs XP, and finally reiserfs] I discovered
from the reiser site that it has a file size limit of ... 2^31 -1.
However this seemed strange but I accepted it. I asked a friend who is
of the beleif that reiserfs 3.5 had the limit but 3.6 does not.
Now for the silly question of the day, how do I know what version of
reiserfs I have "installed"?
OK well it is possible that I have got the wrong end of the stick at
this point and indeed the file size limit is 2.1Gb, the solution would
be to split the tgz on backup but I also have some rather large movie
type files and Iwould rather have a fs that works for me rather than
the other way around.
I dont want to turn this thread into everyones favorite "which fs for
me?" but any simplistic advice on the status of reiserfs file size
limits and such would be helpful.
stu
ps. Comon England and up the Aussies :) we won the ashes!!!!!
pps. Its a cricket thing ^^ ;)
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