RE: linux 2.3/4 and large files
For those running kernel 2.3, what versions of packages are they putting as the
minimum? If we don't have these versions in potato already, then we should look
at including them.
Dave Bristel
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Terry Katz wrote:
> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 08:46:41 -0500
> From: Terry Katz <katz@advanced.org>
> To: Samuel Tardieu <sam@debian.org>
> Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: linux 2.3/4 and large files
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> > >>>>> "Terry" == Terry Katz <katz@advanced.org> writes:
> >
> > Terry> Does anyone know if there are plans on fixing this? (i know
> > Terry> this is not debian specific, just wondering if anyone knows...)
> >
> > >From what I've read in the past, Linus does not agree on changing this
> > for 32 bits machines. On 64 bits machines, off_t is 64 bits long,
> > allowing you to use large files (up to 2^63-1 bytes).
>
> Maybe not, but since Linux 2.3 allows for files larger than 2gig, Linux 2.4
> will as well... Isn't it going to be messy when it goes stable and people
> start wondering why
> files that should be >2gig are showing up as only a couple hundred meg ?
>
> -Terry
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