On 23-Aug 01:08, 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. As far as I know, glibc-2.2.3 in woody is compiled for large file support. (I made a swap file larger then 2gig for 2.4 kernels with dd and all was fine.) Thomas > > Thanks > David > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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