kernel@kvack.org (kernel@kvack.org) writes:
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
> > If your disks are bigger than 2 GB, don't even think about backing them up in
> > files. They will be truncated to 2 GB.
>
> Large file support is present in 2.3 kernels, so this statement is no
> longer true on ext2 and some other filesystems.
But why would you want to? With hard drives costing almost nothing nowadays, it would seem that mirroring would be a better solution. Doing a "dd" from one device to another (hda1 to hdb1, for example) would be a rational alternative. But not backing up a raw partition to a file...
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