Re: 4 GB file limit? (WAS gzip from ports vs gzip from system)

2005-06-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
Sean Hafeez wrote: windows limit. 4gb file size limit. Hi Sean, I wish it was as simple as blaming MS for this one, but no - i tested this locally on the w2k box (dd cmd making 5 GB file), and then by actually running the dump | gzip nfs_share (7 GB .gz) but using nfs v3, mounted by hand

Re: gzip from ports vs gzip from system

2005-06-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
Norberto Meijome wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 26), Norberto Meijome said: Hi there, I had to install gzip from ports as gzip from base system doesn't seem to support 2GB files. Now I find myself with a set of gzip utils in /usr/bin/ (system) and one in /usr/local/

Re: gzip from ports vs gzip from system

2005-06-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 26), Norberto Meijome said: Norberto Meijome wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 26), Norberto Meijome said: I had to install gzip from ports as gzip from base system doesn't seem to support 2GB files. Now I find myself with a set of gzip utils in

4 GB file limit? (WAS gzip from ports vs gzip from system)

2005-06-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
to recap: dump | gzip nfs_share_on_w2k_NAS_running_ServicesForUnix This works fine until the size of the file created on the nfs_share is just under 4 GB (originally thought 2 GB problem) Client : FBSD 4.11, cvsuped April 15th 05, world + kernel. Server : Win2K-Storage server, SP4, Microsoft

Re: 4 GB file limit? (WAS gzip from ports vs gzip from system)

2005-06-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
Garrett Cooper wrote: I am not entirely sure what the issue may be, but NTFS does definitely support file sizes beyond 2 Gb; I think that the only FS'es that don't do that still are Fat based or ext2, but I could be wrong. u're right. Also, I'm not entirely sure which version of NFS

Re: gzip from ports vs gzip from system

2005-06-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
Dan Nelson wrote: That looks like whatever filesystem gzip was writing to couldn't handle files over 2gb. You mentioned writing to a remote filesystem using amd, but it defaults to NFSv3. Were you maybe writing to a FAT fs on the remote end? You can also see whether amd actually mounted the

Re: 4 GB file limit? (WAS gzip from ports vs gzip from system)

2005-06-26 Thread Sean Hafeez
windows limit. 4gb file size limit. On Jun 26, 2005, at 4:36 AM, Norberto Meijome wrote: to recap: dump | gzip nfs_share_on_w2k_NAS_running_ServicesForUnix This works fine until the size of the file created on the nfs_share is just under 4 GB (originally thought 2 GB problem) Client :

gzip from ports vs gzip from system

2005-06-25 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi there, I had to install gzip from ports as gzip from base system doesn't seem to support 2GB files. Now I find myself with a set of gzip utils in /usr/bin/ (system) and one in /usr/local/ (ports). Is there a command equivalent to use.perl ports for gzip, os by default the ports version is

Re: gzip from ports vs gzip from system

2005-06-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 26), Norberto Meijome said: Hi there, I had to install gzip from ports as gzip from base system doesn't seem to support 2GB files. Now I find myself with a set of gzip utils in /usr/bin/ (system) and one in /usr/local/ (ports). I have never had any problems with

Re: gzip from ports vs gzip from system

2005-06-25 Thread Norberto Meijome
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 26), Norberto Meijome said: Hi there, I had to install gzip from ports as gzip from base system doesn't seem to support 2GB files. Now I find myself with a set of gzip utils in /usr/bin/ (system) and one in /usr/local/ (ports). I have never had

Re: gzip from ports vs gzip from system

2005-06-25 Thread Norberto Meijome
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 26), Norberto Meijome said: Hi there, I had to install gzip from ports as gzip from base system doesn't seem to support 2GB files. Now I find myself with a set of gzip utils in /usr/bin/ (system) and one in /usr/local/ (ports). I have never had