Dan Brown wrote:

How do I find out what the INT_MAX or MAX_FILE_SIZE is on my system?

Write a little C program.  (Note filesize is dependent of the
filesystem type too.)

Previously my amanda backup setup was dumping 40GB files onto a Samba
share on a Windows 2000 workstation NTFS partition.  Recently amanda
has been dumping backups into 2GB chunks even though the
configuration still reads to use the size of INT_MAX/MAX_FILE_SIZE of
the system.

You mean the chunksize on holdingdisk?
And why would that bother you.  I have a chunksize of 1 Gbyte,
and, just for fun, I had a month long a chunksize of 128 Mbyte.
It's really completely transparant:  on tape all chunks are
concatenated again.  Except for ridiculous small values of
chunksize, there is little or no overhead (32K for each chunk).

Chunksize is just to be able to use holdingdisk files even for
larger images.  (A really, really long time ago, they had to
bypass the holdingdisk, slowing the backups down, until the
chunksize parameter was added.)

It seems to me you are talking about something else.

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