On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:22:17PM -0700, Jeff Lessem wrote: > Now that woody is based on glibc2.2 I thought I would play with large > file support. Perhaps this was a mistake, as I have managed to create > a 3GB file, but I can't remove it. Any access to the file with the > fileutils package (ls, rm, etc.) returns with "Value too large for > defined data type". > > I thought maybe fileutils had to just be rebuilt against the new > glibc, but after an apt-get source --build fileutils, I still get the > same error. I am sure I am missing something quite obvious, so any > pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
there's a hardcoded 2GB limit in libc. You've to patch libc and recompile yourself. My boss made that (for writing something like 70 GB files), but he's not here currently, so I cannot ask him. If you just need rm, you can write a small program yourself with unlink(). -- Johannes
