X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Subject: Cygwin support for large files MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:41:24 +0200 Message-ID: From: "Rocco Scappatura" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Hello, I'm using cygwin. I'm using SSH service to connect to the cygwin machine and to do some shell activities. When I've tried to zip some files on this machine I get: $ zip -r "E:/tmp-backup/wslogdb_12102009_042901_log.zip" "G:/Backup/" adding: Backup/ (stored 0%) adding: Backup/master_db_200910112345.BAK (deflated 95%) adding: Backup/model_db_200910112345.BAK (deflated 95%) adding: Backup/msdb_db_200910112345.BAK (deflated 88%) adding: Backup/Northwind_db_200910112345.BAK (deflated 81%) adding: Backup/pubs_db_200910112345.BAK (deflated 90%) adding: Backup/WSlogs_1_db_200910112346.BAK zip error: Entry too big to split, read, or write (file exceeds Zip's 4GB uncompressed size limit) I fear that it is the kernel (cygwin engine) that can't manage file greater than 4GB. Is there any way to workaround this limitation? Thanks, rocsca -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple