Windows 2000 2 GB file limit

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Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:23:24PM -0500,
Kenneth Brody blabbed on about:
> 
> Yes and no.  Yes, a filesystem that doesn't allow >2GB files obviously
> won't allow it regardless of the O/S.  No, in the sense that Win9X can't
> access >4GB files regardless of the filesystem.  For example, I created
> a huge file on a WinXP box with NTFS, and from a Win98 box on the network,
> I attempted to copy that file, also to NTFS.  Although the copy kept on
> running, the file never got bigger than 4,295,007,744 bytes, which is
> actually 4GB+40,448 for some reason.  Now, the Win98 box sees the file as
> on 40,448 bytes in size, and copy will only copy that many bytes.  (And
> I'm not sure how you would access the file beyond the 2GB boundary, as
> the Win9x API doesn't have any way to specify a file offset >2GB.)

It can definitely read >2GB files using win95b as the desktop, reading a
3.1GB file on a win2k NTFS share.  I've done it.  You can't copy it to
the local vfat32, but you can read it streaming over the network in Media
Player.  Not a problem.  (It was an MPG, Jay, not an AVI.)

Actually, that's partially misleading--you -can- copy it to the vfat32--or
at least start it copying--if you start it as a push TO the win9x system,
rather than a pull from that system.  If you hop on the win2k system and
push it over, it starts copying.  I figured it would corrupt the FAT and I
didn't want to risk the system, so I aborted within a few seconds--but it
would start it.

Someone with a system they don't mind potentially killing can test that
model the rest of they way, if they like.  :)

mark->
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