Interesting shenanigans

[Liberty Young]

I once tried to use TAR to backup some machines, but i hit the 2GB
limit. Is there any way i can get tar to overcome that limit? 


> 
> 
> I had the same discussion on another list, so I will share the answer.
> 
> I was recording streaming media from the Internet.  If I used xmms, it
> would get to 2.1G and segfault.  Using dd, I could create a 4 GB file. 
> Using mplayer, I can create a 4 GB mp3 (my current stream is 2589036544
> bytes in size - clearly larger than 2.1 GB).  So it is not the
> filesystem - it is the application's ability to deal with large files. 
> xmmx cannot, mplayer can.  dd can, and apparently, yes cannot.
> 
> Likewise, xmmx can play a 2.1 GB mp3, but it's display cannot handle a 4
> GB mp3.
> 
> 2.1 GB is the maximum size of a signed 32 bit integer.  Seems strange to
> me that one would use a signed integer vice an unsigned int for files,
> but then, I gave up programming a long time ago.
> 
> George
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