Re: Large file support in Woody

2000-11-17 Thread Jeff Lessem
In your message of: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 08:45:41 +0800, you write: >You have to patch the 2.2.17 kernel or you have to use 2.4 kernel. Yes, I am using 2.4.0-test10. -- Jeff Lessem.

Re: Large file support in Woody

2000-11-17 Thread ha shao
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:58:19PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I thought this limit was removed in for glibc 2.2. I did a > dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024k count=3072 and it worked fine. > Previously this blew up at 2GB. I am sure I am mistaken about some of > this, which is causing

Re: Large file support in Woody

2000-11-17 Thread Jeff Lessem
In your message of: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:39:01 +0100, you write: >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. I thought this limit was removed in f

Re: Large file support in Woody

2000-11-17 Thread Johannes Zellner
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

Large file support in Woody

2000-11-17 Thread Jeff Lessem
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