Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 28 Oct 2000 00:34:50 +0200 (CEST) | From | Igmar Palsenberg <> | Subject | Re: Big file support in Linux 2.2 |
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> Hello, > > For one of our projects here, we've crashed head first into the 2 gig file size > limitation in Linux 2.2 kernels. While I know that this has been solved in > 2.3/2.4, has there been any work to backport this feature into a Linux 2.2 > kernel? I'm looking for a temporary solution until we can move to Linux 2.4 > directly, but obviously not until after it's been "really" released. :) > > Yes, I know this is likely to be relatively unstable. (Probably almost as > unstable as running a 2.4-pre kernel in production), but at least it would give > us a start.
Seek for LFS on Freshmeat. Requires a kernel patch, and a glibc recompile. I'm still having some problems with it, mainly cp -ar giving some wonderful weard strace results.
> > Thanks for your help, > > Joe
Igmar
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