On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 at 1:13pm, Katrinka Dall wrote

> Hello,
>
>       I've recently loaded Amanda on a Linux 2.4.2-2 server.  I was able to get
> Amanda set up and working, but, any file system that is over 2G fails and
> gives me the error:
>
> lev 0 FAILED ["data write: File too large"]
>
>       This isn't an issue of not having enough room on our tape or holding disk,
> I have a 36G holding disk and a DLT4 tape drive.  Looking at the source, I
> noticed that there was large file support for some operating systems (hp,
> solaris), but there wasn't anything for Linux.  I'm not sure if I'm missing
> something, I was hoping one of you could help me out.
>
Set "chunksize" in amanda.conf to something less than 2GB-32K for header
info.  There's no performance hit, so 1GB is a good value.

BTW, which version of amanda?  ./configure in 2.4.2p2 spits out:

checking for large file compilation CFLAGS... -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
checking for large file compilation LDFLAGS...
checking for large file compilation LIBS...

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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