Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:18:21PM -0800, bao wrote:Jon, I have done some search for Linux file size. It says:
As a followup to my previous mail.
I have repeatedly tried amrecover with different disks in my config. The small disk (with original 760 MB, after backup ~380 MB) seems to let me recover. The bigger disk (original ~ 18 GB, after backup ~9 MB) always hangs or reboots the server itself. No compression is used, just tar, in the config.
Does amanda impose a limit on disk size???
Amanda does not, but many OS's do. A common file size limit is 2GB.
For ext2/3 and kernel 2.4.x, file size: ~ 4TB, filesystem size: ~ 1TB.
Obviously, it can't be the kernel that imposes this limit. Morever, I was able to get a dump, using tar, of size > 9 GB. If the OS has a limit of 2GB, I wouldn't have gotten this far.
I have a feeling that while searching for the specified file to recover, it somehow exhausts system mem with a size of 9 GB, in only one tar file. Now that is just a guess, because I don't know how tar searches for file in its archive.
Anyone ever tried anything that big? in just on file?? and been successfullly recover it ???
