Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: Big file support in Linux 2.2 | Date | Fri, 27 Oct 2000 12:02:44 -0600 (MDT) |
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Joe writes: > 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. :)
You can get a 2.2 LFS patch from: http://www.scyld.com/software/lfs.html
There may be other sources. You also need to have a newer glibc (or recompile your own) to really support LFS.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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