[lug] rar archives

The Matt thompsma at colorado.edu
Wed Jun 18 10:44:44 MDT 2003


On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 10:08, Kenneth D. Weinert wrote:
> 
> WinRAR supports files and archives up to 8,589 BILLION GIGABYTES in size
> 
> That's a big file - hopefully your source isn't transfering ones 
> quite that large :)

And I hope you aren't using ext2/3.  I think it still dies at 16 TB. 
Now, if you're using ReiserFS, XFS, or JFS, I think you might be OK,
although XFS is the only one I've ever heard that can do 9 EB (2**63,
IIRC).

-- 
"And isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony, anyway?  I mean,
all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good
and crazy, ooh ooh ooh, the sky's the limit!" -- The Tick
  The Matt -- http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~thompsma/
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