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OpenSSH 3.1p1 scp problem with large files
- From: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- To: Eugene Cheng <eugene at rentec dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:56:29 +0100
- Subject: OpenSSH 3.1p1 scp problem with large files
- References: <20020619213954.GC3297@jaguar.rentec.com>
On Wednesday 19 Jun 02, Eugene Cheng writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have problems scp'ing files >1GB from a Windows2000 box running OpenSSH
> 3.1p1 under Cygwin. It copies some small percentage of the file and then
> dies with a "Lost connection". The remote box is a SUN box running
> Solaris 8 with OpenSSH. My test file is 9GB in size and I have gotten 670MB
> of the file copied at the most. Could this be related to the df mis-reporting
> bug?
>
> The file copies ok to other systems, just not to this Cygwin box. I've tried
> multiple versions of OpenSSH without success.
Cygwin does not support "large files" (> 2GB?). Sorry.
Regards,
David
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