win2k + >2GB files problem

[David Starks-Browning]

For completeness, Cygwin also has no support for large (> 2GB) files.

Regards,
David

On Thursday 8 Nov 01, Carey Jung writes:
> This most likely has nothing to do with rsync, but rather is due to the 2.2
> linux kernel's 2GB filesize limit.  If you are in fact using a 2.2 kernel,
> you need to move up to the 2.4 kernel.
> 
> Regards,
> Carey
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rsync-admin at lists.samba.org
> > [mailto:rsync-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Horvath Andras
> > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 4:14 AM
> > To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: win2k + >2GB files problem
> >
> >
> > hi!
> >
> > I have a problem with rsync (current CVS version), running on a win2k
> > machine (rsync compiled using Cygwin).
> >
> > c:\rsync>rsync --version
> > rsync  version 2.4.6dev  protocol version 24
> > Copyright (C) 1996-2001 by Andrew Tridgell, Paul Mackerras and others
> > Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks
> >
> > It can DOWNload >2gb files from my linux box (with rsync reporting
> > negative file sizes during download :), but I want to use rsync to back
> > up the win2k host so I need to UPload my soo-large files which does not
> > work.
> >
> > c:\rsync>rsync -avvv big.file otherhost::whatever
> >
> > building file list ...
> > make_file(3,big.file)
> > done
> > send_file_list done
> > send_files starting
> > send_files(0,big.file)
> > send_files mapped big.file of size -1692471296
> > calling match_sums big.file
> > big.file
> > sending file_sum
> > false_alarms=0 tag_hits=0 matches=0
> > sender finished big.file
> > send_files phase=1
> > send files finished
> > total: matches=0  tag_hits=0  false_alarms=0 data=-1692471296
> > wrote 173 bytes  read 56 bytes  152.67 bytes/sec
> > total size is -1692471296  speedup is -7390704.35
> >
> > File system is NTFS, the file size is ~2.6Gbs.
> > For small files, everything seems to be OK.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > regards
> > Horvath "raas" Andras
> >
> >
>