Question: silly one,

do you have any problems with rsync'ing large [ >4GB ] files under modern linux? [ 32bit, 64bit, large file support turned on ]? i've done some tests on my own between 2 64bit boxes and didn't have any problems transferring 6-10GB files. to make test thorough i altered files, run rsync again, checked md5... - all seems ok.

but after i saw [this](http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532227) bug report i got a bit worried. i did some searching but have not found any confirmation of the problem.

thanks for your thoughts!

**edit:** file system: ext3, reiserfs

Answer: 
The error report that you've linked to does not seem to be a 4GB+ filesize related error. 429796854 bytes is just shy of 410Mb, and it seems to be a transport error rather than an rsync one. If 

I would suspect that the transport connection (presumably SSH) has dropped, perhaps due to an inactivity timeout because the CPU spent so long between sends because it had to do something like checksum a very large file, and this is the reason that rsync reports a broken pipe.

I'm sure I've used rsync successfully on files over 4Gb in the past with 32bit clients and servers, and at least once where more then 4Gb was actually transferred rather than just considered for transfer.
Nope, I throw around 5-10GB VM images using rsync all the time, never seen a problem.