On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 01:34:33PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
It seems to have worked reasonably well so far to only enable LFS where obviously needed (fileutils, backup software), and when someone files a bug asking for it (slrn for example), and when upstream enables it (perl I think). At least I cannot remember seeing any requests for LFS turned on in a given program being ignored, and I'm confident that anything reasonable I throw at a large file will probably support it and is at the most a bug report away from doing so.
Bzzt. It's at most a bug report and a stable release away. (Be conservative and call it two years.) We can and should do better than shove sarge out and say "maybe your big file will work and maybe it won't." Even more, as lfs-enabled programs (and ridiculously large hard drives) become common it's increasingly jarring to stumble accrosssomething that isn't lfs-enabled.
Mike Stone