My guess would be that you have to get an Alpha to get this to work . .
. anybody here know for sure?
Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> REGIMBEAU M InfoDpcCli wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to create a large file (> 2^31 bytes).
> > The following simple test :
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=4096k count=600
> > returns an error, regardless of the distribution (Mandrake 7.0, Redhat 6.2).
> >
> > I don't know if I have to patch the kernel, the glibc or both of them.
> >
> > Does anybody have an idea ?
>
> Yes: You can't. 2GB is the max file size, probably because
> that is the max signed longword value. This may get fixed in
> kernel 2.4, but I'm not sure.
>
> Ron
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