Re: Help - Large Files Support
Thomas Zimmerman wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
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man mke2fs...may help...i believe there's a parameter for adjusting the
size of inodes to accomodate large(r) files...g.b...
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