Re: files bigger than 2 GB

From: Andreas Jaeger (aj@suse.de)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 09:25:02 EST


>>>>> Arnaud Installe writes:

> Hello,
> I need support for files larger than 2GB. What's the status for that ?
> AFAIK neither 2.2 nor 2.4-test support that out of the box. Can anyone
> point me to a good link for patches ? Apart from the kernel, does
> anything else need changes for large file support ?

2.4.0test7 has all the LFS (large file support) in it. It will work
on ext2 - but e.g. not on NFSv2.

You need a new glibc (no need to recompile your programs). glibc 2.2
will support the kernel LFS interfaces, a beta quality test release is
available as glibc 2.1.93 (search the mailing list archives at
http://sources.redhat.com/glibc for the announcement).

Some distributions, like SuSE 7.0 (RedHat might also, I'm not sure),
come with a glibc 2.1.3 that has LFS support in it that works with
2.4.0testX.

Andreas

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