On 15/11/2007, David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > On 15/11/2007, andrewk9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> The reason given for splitting the download into 3 was that old systems > >> don't like files bigger than 2GB. For example, old versions of wget stop > >> downloading at 2GB minus 1 byte. Personally, I find totally this bizarre > >> given this is 2007. > >> > > > > Actually, the main reason was not only that, but that the download > > servers hosting the files used to have problems with files >2GB > > (supposedly), and the fact that the number of completed downloads > > drops significantly once you go over a certain size unless folks are > > using a download manager (apparently). > > > > The receiving systems can't have problems with files over 2GB, or > there's no point; since the pieces get combined after download. There > could be issues with any number of pieces of software that some people > might use at earlier points in the chain, of course.
That isn't necessarily true. The bug in receiving systems was often the software itself had problems with downloading individual files over 2gb. However, the files could be combined after download without issue on many systems. Nonetheless, I tend to believe that with the download manager in place now, with the download servers being fixed (last I heard), and most folks using more up-to-date systems, this shouldn't be a requirement any longer. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
