RE: [cobalt-users] Qube 3 backup stopped working!!

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Dogsbody wrote:

> 
> > Is it possible that what you are backing up just exceeded 2 gig in size
> > or such?
> 
> Now you might have hit on something there!!  I may well have just gone over
> the 2Gig mark, but why should that affect my backups??
> 
> The only 2 Gig limit I know of is on the old FAT16 Partitions!!??

No, you need to realise, 2 gig is aso the magic number you get from 32
bits. 32 bit numbers are/were used to indicate the postition in a file.. 
That limit exists in several other places as the maximum size of a
single file. Samba will have this limit in some cases, rememebr ms
networking goes back to dos days....the linux filesystem has this limit
until recent kernels also....backing up by writing everything into a
single file causes this problem quite frequently....


gsh