Rsync issue - can it handle files larger than 2 gigabytes?

Lapo Luchini lapo@lapo.it
Fri Jan 3 10:03:00 GMT 2003


Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:

>>wrote 150 bytes  read 36 bytes  124.00 bytes/sec
>>total size is -1911686656  speedup is -10277885.25
>>    
>>
>Looks to me like you're running into 32-bit integer overflows.
>While Cygwin internals don't support 64-bit either, judging from 
>the output above, I'm guessing that rsync problem you're seeing is
>internal to rsync.  A closer look at the code would help you determine
>that for sure.  In any case, this is an indication that file sizes 
>beyond 2GB don't work.
>
rsync internals sould actually be 64-bit based.
Michael, what version are you using exactly?
latest is:

$ rsync --version
rsync  version 2.5.5  protocol version 26
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others
<http://rsync.samba.org/>
Capabilities: 32-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles,
              no IPv6, 32-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums

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