Comment 27 for bug 385495

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Richard Merren (richard-merren) wrote :

Martin: Very good question. The drive is definitely NTFS (or it was...I wiped it to try reformatting with EXT4, but NTFS was confirmed with the Disk Tool beforehand.). Oddly, NTFS is supposed to be able to handle files much larger than 2GB, but I have found a few other references online to people having problems with 2GB file size limits on NTFS-3G under various distros, though nobody has an explanation for why it happens other than to point fingers at FUSE or the Kernel. There are also a number of bug reports or message board comments on various distros about the "splicing" error I am getting related to either large file size or sparsely populated files in NTFS.

It is possible that the 2GB failure is a hardware problem with my disk--I am having trouble formatting it with EXT4 when plugged in to two separate computers. It is only about 9 months old, but I have had previous large USB drives fail early on as well. Still, I think it is a reasonable request (even if I didn't ask for it reasonably before ;-) ) that the signature file be limited in size just like the content files