file size limit question

[Ed Wilts]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:19:16PM +0530, Nagarjuna Rao Cherukuri wrote:
> 
> I am trying to take zip backup of a directory. But, the zip command
> fails once the output file reaches 2G. I am on RHEL AS 3.
> 
> Can anybody throw some light on this?

The update to zip is in RHEL4 but doesn't seem to be in RHEL3 yet.

>From the RHEL4 changelog:
* Mon Jun 21 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh at redhat.com> 2.3-24

- Extend max file/archive size to 2^32-8193 (4294959103) bytes
- Include better debugging output for configure script

RHEL3 currently has 2.3-16.1.

If you really need the fix today, I'd suggest you grab the source rpm
from RHEL4 and rebuild it for RHEL3.  I can't think of an obvious reason
why that would not work.  It will only get you an archive twice the size
though - if you're trying to generate a zip file >4GB, you'll still be
out of luck.

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