On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 08:17:47AM -0500, Mike Hicks wrote: > Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote: > > > > ReiserFS supports large files, larger than 2GB, but can I actually write > > files that large or am I constrained because of the 2GB limit in VFS? > > You must be running Linux 2.4 and have a glibc that supports large file > operations. I'm pretty sure that some programs are still able to write to > large files, even if the C library doesn't support it (tar and dd, for > example). How about shell redirects through NFS? bzip2 < /dev/sda8 > /nfsmounteddrive/sda8.img.bz2 -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39