Subject: Re: Is O_DIRECT useless on NetBSD?
To: SODA Noriyuki <soda@sra.co.jp>
From: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@aydogan.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/21/2007 14:18:06
2007/11/21, SODA Noriyuki <soda@sra.co.jp>:
> >>>>> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:31:24 +0100,
>       Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org> said:
>
> >> I'm not so sure about that
>
> > Hmm, ok, you are right. I could have saved a bit of efford if I had
> > converted the disk to FFS first. Of course, both pax and tar cannot
> > create large files on a FAT32 filesystem. :(
>
> It's not a problem of pax or tar.
> The FAT32 filesystem itself doesn't support files larger than 4GB,
> regardless of the OS.
> --
> soda
>

You could try NTFS via FUSE.