[Bug 10675] rsyncing >2GB file onto fat32 partition should fail earlier

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10675

Wayne Davison  changed:

   What|Removed |Added

 Status|NEW |RESOLVED
 Resolution|--- |WONTFIX

--- Comment #2 from Wayne Davison  ---
The problem is that rsync doesn't know that the destination filesystem is not
going to allow a large file until the file grows to be too large.  You could
probably get an earlier error if you use --preallocate, though.

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[Bug 10675] rsyncing >2GB file onto fat32 partition should fail earlier

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10675

--- Comment #1 from Daniel  ---
If the Topic should mean ">4GB":
I can confirm the problem.

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