Re: >2Gb files

[david.jackson@ogt.co.uk]

Hi - I'm looking for a tale of success, suggestion of something to check,
or a link to a more detailed recipe for > 2GB files on i386 using debian 
really. 

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:44:49AM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote:
> To be honest, i don't have the answer but i think this has allready been
> discussed some time ago, so you'll be able to find info on this in the
> mailingslistarchives

Right, well I had already had a scan of the list archives and all I could 
gather from them, aside from moving to a 64bit architecture, was that for 
a 2.4 series kernel the main requirement was to recompile the c library 
with the 2.4 kernel headers.  This is why I have followed the prescription 
below.

<Some deleted correspondence>

> > I'm using a 2.4.3 kernel-image compiled from debian kernel-source
> > package. After installing the corresponding kernel-headers deb I
> > created, I have recompiled glibc (2.2.2-4) with a
> > #apt-get --build source glibc 
> > then installed the created debs...
> > #dpkg -i ./libc6-dev_2.2.2-4_i386.deb ./libc6_2.2.2-4_i386.deb
> > ./locales_2.2.2-4_all.deb
> > I then build fileutils,
> > #apt-get -t testing --build source fileutils
> > and install them,
> > #dpkg -i ./fileutils_4.0.43-1_i386.deb
> > 
> > Unfortunately a
> > #/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=file2 bs=1024 count=3553600
> > gives me a
> > "File size limit exceeded"
> > 
> > I've tried this in ext2fs and reiserfs and have tried a --build
> > source and install of their respective progs packages, recreation
> > of filesystems but I still have the 2GB limit. 
> > 
> > Any ideas? What I should be checking?
> > thanks,
> > david