On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Tommi Sakari Uimonen wrote:

> I'm planning to use arecord for serious harddisk recording, but it can't

I strongly suggest to look for other alternatives. For serious
harddisk recording you absolutely need an application that provides
protection against spikes in disk i/o operation latencies.

Here's a more detailed explanation of why Ecasound suits this 
purpose:

 http://eca.cx/ecasound-list/2001/06/0016.html

> write files bigger than 2BG. After browsing through kernel mailing lists
> about LFS I concluded that the problem is arecord, not the underlying
> filesystem (and since I've had >8GB files on it :).

Ecasound has support for LFS (compile with --with-largefile).

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