What does Gentoo do for it's apps - does it compile them
with large file support?
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 15:34:48 -0500
James Michael Fultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03 Mar 2003
10:02]:
i know that a fat32 filesystem has a 4gb limit, and that
an ext3
system (that's what i'm using) has a limit considerably
higher....
why then can't i build a file any bigger than 2gb on my
machine?
[ ... ]
It's not a filesystem problem, but one of largefile
support in software.
I've encountered the same problem at times and was able
to use dd as a
work-around. If you can pipe the output to another
program, pipe it
through dd and have dd write your file. My last
experience found dd
having largefile support.
The following freshmeat.net article may be helpful in
explaining the
problem: <http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/709/>
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