Bob,
The problem (as I recall) is that the applications need to be 'aware' of 64 bit files (the largest file that can be created on a 32 bit os 2Gb (2^31). A lot of the apps that you use in your daily life (ls, cat, less, tar, etc.) are 32 bit and really can't reference the largefile addresses.
I work with large files all of the time and the lack of good largefiles support from linux is one of the big reasons our software has not been ported yet (well that and a whole mess of political issues...). Somewhere around here I have notes on largefiles and linux. I will see if I can dig up what I found late last year and forward it on.
Garl
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Crandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 7:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [EUG-LUG:2566] RE: BIG FILES
Garl,
I'm running 2.4.17 here but ls, less and cat didn't like looking at a file that
big. Maybe they need to be recompiled? Where is the source? What package are
they in?
You can try if you wish. I'd like to be able to tell him it works somewhere in the
world.
Thanks
Grigsby, Garl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*:
>
>Bob,
> I believe that large file support was added in the 2.4 kernel. Not
>sure what apps will work with 2 Gb files, but I could copy one from my
>HP-UX box and try it. Let me know if you want me to try.
>
>Garl
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Crandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 2:05 PM
>To: Eugene Linux Users Group
>Subject: [EUG-LUG:2560] BIG FILES
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm talking to a guy about a new workstation running Redhat. It might
>have a
>striped, mirrored set of drives totaling 320 gigs for capacity and
>throughput. He
>does some heavy arithmatic and uses most of this to hold temporary files
>that could
>be 5 - 10 gigs in size. The computer he has now runs into the 2 gig
>limit. Has
>this limit been elimiated? Has anyone generated a 3 gig file and run
>less, cat or
>more on it?
>
>Thanks.
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