can't zip large files 2gb >

David Kelly dkelly at hiwaay.net
Thu May 3 13:34:20 UTC 2007


Correction:

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 07:10:37AM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> 
> Can't keep from thinking somehow your hardware is broken because  
> myself and others have been gzip, bzip, zipping, large files for a  
> long time under FreeBSD without problems. BUT on 6.0 I had  
> intermittent problems trying to download files over 4 GB with  
> FreeBSD. But seemingly only with "old" files, more than a day old.

"over 4 GB *from* FreeBSD." ftpd was having problems reading the large
file, sometimes.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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