Re: large scp/sftp from 4.1 to 3.4 fails

Paul Berube wrote:

> security.intrusion wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On an end,
> > OpenSSH_3.4p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, Openssl 0x0090605f  on a Windows
> > 2000 Server.
> >
> > on the other end,
> > OpenSSH_4.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7g 11 Apr 2005 on a FreeBSD 5.4-Stable.
> >
> > for backup purposes, we transfer a large file from the second to first
> > weekly. When file size exceeds 2 G
> So: copying from BSD to Windows, and sftp and scp both fail for files
> > 2GB?
> I'm pretty sure some windows file systems don't support files larger
> than 2GB.  NTFS should be OK (I have >2GB files on my machine with
> NTFS) but FAT32 could be a problem.  I can't remember if it always has
> a 2GB limit, or if the limit is dependent on the block size you chose
> when you formatted the drive.  I'm sure google knows :)
Windows has an NTFS filesystem, i have already checked about the file
size limit on ntfs. it says 16 TB, even using FAT says 4 G per file.
but one can not be sure when using a non-deterministic system like
windows :)

thanks in advance

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