9.1 update mirror -- getting file limits with gzip
Hello, Doe anyone know of a Suse 9.1 mirror that is still up? I have a kernel, 2.6.5-7.257-smp, x86_64, and I'd like to update to see if it corrects a problem with gzip which is only able to zip up to 2.0 Gb before giving the following error; "6910 file limit exceeded". Thank you in advance, James
On Monday 02 October 2006 04:53, James D. Parra wrote:
Doe anyone know of a Suse 9.1 mirror that is still up? I have a kernel, 2.6.5-7.257-smp, x86_64, and I'd like to update to see if it corrects a problem with gzip which is only able to zip up to 2.0 Gb before giving the following error; "6910 file limit exceeded".
You can work around the 2GB problem with gzip by compressing as a stream instead of a file. e.g., instead of: gzip myBigFile do: cat myBigFile | gzip -c > myBigFile.gz rm myBigFile i remember having to do that on an older Suse version (don't remember which one). Also, make sure you're on a filesystem which supports files >2GB. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts
On Monday 02 October 2006 11:40, stephan beal wrote:
You can work around the 2GB problem with gzip by compressing as a stream instead of a file.
e.g., instead of:
gzip myBigFile
do:
cat myBigFile | gzip -c > myBigFile.gz rm myBigFile
PS: that also works for scp'ing files on older systems where scp has a 2GB limit: cat myBigFile | ssh me@remotehost 'cat > /path/to/myBigFile' that is functionaly the same as: scp myBigFile me@remote:/path/to/myBigFile but works around the size limitation. Of course, you're still subject to file size limitations on the target filesystem. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-10-01 at 19:53 -0700, James D. Parra wrote:
Doe anyone know of a Suse 9.1 mirror that is still up?
You have to look under /pub/suse/discontinued/ now. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFIOSztTMYHG2NR9URAv2IAJ4lRaTy/U1N5RiZSFdObgYlkXWalgCggqOF kKNF5f10reaS1S82pPWXuRQ= =0wId -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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