Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:15:52 +0200 | | From | Arnaud Installe <> | | Subject | Re: files bigger than 2 GB |
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First of all, thanks to all of you for your responses. :-) I was under the impression 2.4 still didn't have large file support, as I seem to recall ssize_t still was 32 bits.
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:25:02PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > >>>>> Arnaud Installe writes: > > > Hello, > > I need support for files larger than 2GB. What's the status for that ? > > AFAIK neither 2.2 nor 2.4-test support that out of the box. Can anyone > > point me to a good link for patches ? Apart from the kernel, does > > anything else need changes for large file support ? > > 2.4.0test7 has all the LFS (large file support) in it. It will work > on ext2 - but e.g. not on NFSv2.
So how about ReiserFS ? And Coda ?
> You need a new glibc (no need to recompile your programs). glibc 2.2 > will support the kernel LFS interfaces, a beta quality test release is > available as glibc 2.1.93 (search the mailing list archives at > http://sources.redhat.com/glibc for the announcement). > > Some distributions, like SuSE 7.0 (RedHat might also, I'm not sure), > come with a glibc 2.1.3 that has LFS support in it that works with > 2.4.0testX.
Ok, thanks.
-- Arnaud Installe a.installe@ieee.org
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