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Swift segments files to support objects larger than 5 GB. If you want to upload a file larger than 5GB using the Swift CLI you will need to ensure you use the -S flag and set a segment size (below is 4GB segment size).
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swift upload container_name -S 4294967296 my_large_fils.tar |
By default Swift splits files larger than 5 GB while Cyberduck performs this for if the file is larger than 2GB. There are a couple caveats with the different approaches the two applications take take to handling large files when it comes to accessing these files via a web browser (completely unrelated to the size they use to split files).
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