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Re: [PLUG] Transfer REALLY large file(s) between Linux and OS X
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 06:06:30PM -0400, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> I'm trying to move a 28G file from Linux to OS X. Transmit fails after
> 4G. scp fails after about the same. I'm trying to avoid cutting it up -
> I already tried to make on 5.6G file - but that fails too (no surprise).
> Unless I can take my 28G tarball and slice it into 7 4G pieces and
> reassemble then on the other side. It just really bother me that it's
> bombing at 4G. I assume because the file is being cached in RAM. Anyway
> to force scp to incrementally write the file to disk?
Sounds like you're using tools that aren't large-file aware. That would
explain whatever you do, you can't write more than 2^32 bytes.
I'm pretty sure HFS+ can handle large files. Try using a tool that uses
64-bit file offsets.
Z.
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