In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Artur Hecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Alan DeKok wrote: >> >> Peter Nixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > That was not the exact error message. I am sorry, I will post the correct >> > one when I have a spare server built and I can regenerate the problem. >> > One OS was SuSE 8.0 on ReiserFS (on LVM, on RAID) and the other was RedHat >> > 7.2 on Ext2. (Both are running current recommended kernels from the >> > vendors.) >> >> Hmm... they should be able to handle files larger than 2G.
Euhm, nope, since freeradius doesn't have support for it. See below. >well, that's wrong if you are talking about the filesystems. both the >ext2 and the reiserfs can treat files bigger than 2G (64bit) since a >long long time. the problem always has been the VFS (virtual file >system) of the linux kernel which for as far as i know couldn't treat >big files till to the version 2.4.0 without patches. so, check your True, you need a 2.4 kernel and at least glibc 2.2 I think (2.1.3 might work, I'm not sure). >kernel version and verify from which version on it is definitely >supported without bugs etc. it can be reiserfs or ext3 or whatever, it's >not the point. Also, most 32-bit systems do /not/ handle files > 2GB by default. The application must be compiled with 'large file support'. So for freeradius to handle > 2GB files on Linux (and Solaris, and almost any other Unix on a 32 bits processor except FreeBSD which has 64 bits file offsets by default) you need to compile with flags -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 Mike. -- Computers are useless, they only give answers. --Pablo Picasso - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
