On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:08:27PM +1200, David McNab wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just now managed (after a few attempts) to install deb > testing/unstable, and find Debian to be unquestionably the best Linux > distro to date. > > One thing I need help with is in getting large files support working. > Some of my uses (eg Freenet 0.4, which has its store as one large file), > require me to have files larger than 2GB (since I want to run a massive > data store). Being able to work with up to 16GB-sized files would > satisfy me totally. > > Can someone please point me in the right direction for enabling Debian > to work with large files. > Can I do it without having to recompile the kernel or recompiling glibc > progs? > > I tried 'apt-cache search large files support', and 'apt-cache search > lfs', but nothing meaningful came up. I'm not really an expert on this topic, but I heard that you need 2.4 kernel, and glibc compiled against 2.4 headers. AFAIK , glibs in debian is comiled against 2.2 But that only something I heard mentioned. Don't take it as the ultimate truth, and I would like for someone else to confirm this please . So looks like you are SOL :-( > > Thanks > David > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -- GPG key-id: 1024D/5BE3DCFD Dmitriy CCAB 5F17 A099 9E43 1DBE 295C 9A21 2F1C 5BE3 DCFD Adobe put Dmitry in jail for the crime against society of revealing that they were selling ROT-13 as "encryption." He is rotting in US rison as a political prisoner for speaking out. Free Dmitry Sklyarov! http://www.freesklyarov.org
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