On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 11:27 +0100, Carlo Daffara wrote: > Sorry for what may be a faq (but Google! didn't help me). > I am interested in using Evolution to store a large set of mail folders, > some larger than 2Gb, and use the Vfolder functionality to help in mail > searches in this email corpus. The evolution binary we are using seems not > compiled with large file support, so we have to artificially split things > up.
FWIW You could just use maildir backend, then you only hav ea 2GB limit per-message, rather than per-folder. > We are so in the process of recompiling everything with > -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE; and would like to ask: > > * is there any problem in this on traditional intel/amd x86 architectures? > that is, is there anything in evolution or the support libraries that > may not work correctly? There may be some things. We (in the mail application) have some binary format files that store size_t's and the like, they will properly work in 64 bit mode, but they wont be compatible with the files generated by a 32bit compilation. The mailbox handling code 'should probably work', and there have been some 64-bit platform patches which should address similar issues, but beyond that, it could have bugs. > * what libraries should also support largefile? I suppose Medusa and the > other gnome libs, is this right? Any that use file-io i guess. We dont use medusa, so it doesn't matter for evolution. _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
