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From:
Jonathan Stowe
Date:
August 31, 2001 13:02
Subject:
Re: Perl and files > 2GB
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.33.0108311934520.11263-100000@orpheus.gellyfish.com
On 31 Aug 2001, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:

> Redhat Linux 7.1, perl 5.6.0, kernel 2.4.8-ac7, glibc-2.2.2
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1024k count=2048
>

This could be an OS issue - unfortunately I am unable to confirm :

[gellyfish@orpheus gellyfish]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=zogzog bs=1024k count=2048
dd: writing `zogzog': File too large
2048+0 records in
2047+0 records out

This RedHat 7.0 with  2.2.16-22 ...

/J\
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