Re: How do I get larg file support?
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 04:01:01PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> On Sun Feb 25 14:33:51 2001 brian moore wrote...
> >
> >On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 02:08:38PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> >> Let;s just cut to the chase on this.
> >>
> >> I need to be able to create, and work with larg files (> 2G) under
> >> Debian Linux. Secondly I need the moststable system for doing this,
> >> as it will be a production machine.
> >
> >You need many things from 'unstable' (though perhaps most of them are
> >now in 'testing', I haven't looked).
> >
> >The biggies:
> > a 2.4.x kernel
> > glibc2.1
> > lots of little things like the current fileutils, etc
>
> Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> So, it looks like I have 2 choices here (remeber I have already upgraded to
> testing).
>
> 1. Cahnge ap-get sources to unstable, Take a deep breath, and do apt-get
> opgrade.
>
> 2. Figure out how to get a 2.4 kerne built on "tetsting"
>
> 2b. Find someone who has /debs for 2.4 for "testing"
>
> If I do 1. will I get the 2.4 kernel?
Nope.
> 2 Will require me to figure out how to build the Debian way, a kernel for
> which I do not hvae .debs, since the 2.4 kerenel is not offered as a choice by
> dselect.
Just grab it from kernel.org like usual, and use 'make-kpkg' to make
your own kernel debs. (I dislike precompiled kernels and all the fluff
they have for hardware I have no interest in -- an no support for
hardware I -am- interested in like my pjbox. :))
> So are you saying I could stay with ex2fs? Are you certain of this?
Yes.
[gimli:/doom/bem] 1:10:34pm 130 % dd if=/dev/zero of=FatFile bs=1M
count=3000
3000+0 records in
3000+0 records out
[gimli:/doom/bem] 1:14:49pm 131 % ls -l FatFile
-rw------- 1 bem bem 3145728000 Feb 25 13:14 FatFile
[gimli:/doom/bem] 1:14:59pm 132 % cat /proc/filesystems
nodev sockfs
nodev shm
nodev pipefs
nodev proc
ext2
iso9660
nodev autofs
nodev nfs
nodev devpts
nodev usbdevfs
A nice fat 3G file of zeros.... and it's on e2fs.
> >> How do I go about seting up a machine to do this?
> >
> >See above. It works fine on 'unstable', and probably works on 'testing'
> >if you upgrade the kernel to 2.4.
>
> Got a pointer to how to compile a 2.4 kernel, the Debian wya, on "testing"?
Get kernel source from kernel.org, untar, cd linux, make
(menu|x)?config, fakeroot make-kpkg --revision Custom.1 binary, dpkg -i
../kernel-image-whatever, reboot. :)
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