Re: Help - Large Files Support
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:51:45PM -0400, Mike McGuire wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:30:32PM -0500, Indraneel Majumdar wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:25:00PM +0200, Federico 'Derfel' Stella wrote:
> > > Check headers in /usr/include/linux/.
> > > If UTS_RELEASE in version.h is 2.4.x you have nothing to do.
> >
> > I am running unstable (upgraded from potato via woody) on Linux-2.2.5
> >
> > version.h:
> > #define UTS_RELEASE "2.4.8"
> > #define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 132104
> > #define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))
> >
> > cannot generate file > 2GB
>
> I remember someone saying that both the kernel and the program need
> large file support. I *don't* remember if you said which program and
A fair amount of programs probably still use a "long" integer for file
offsets which can "address" 2147483647 bytes on a 32bit machine. Say,
that's just about 2GB... Not all programs that do file I/O care about
byte offsets, but those that do will break.
> version of said program you're trying (and probably the libs on which
> it depends, too), so if you did, sorry. Try asking again, anyway,
> with that info. Sorry I can't help you further, but I don't a thing
> about it other than that. :)
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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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