>> May be a little off-topic, but does anybody use or know a patch to
>> linux that can make it handle files larger then 2GB?
> yes, the latest 2.3 kernels have large file support (LFS) integrated:
>
> moon:> ls -l bigfile
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mingo mingo 4033439744 Nov 14 01:58 bigfile
>
> this is a 4GB file on ext2fs with 2.3.28 on x86. There are still some
> system calls missing AFAIK (eg. lstat64(), mmap64()), but basically the
> main limitation (the page cache) has been fixed. The maximum file size
> limit on ext2fs right now is around 16TB [?].
>
> -- mingo
This is good news for me :)
One question though:
Once the LFS is integrated in the kernel will old precompiled binaries be
able to handle >2GB files?
I'm asking because I have a piece of commercial (i.e. non-recompilable)
software that I run on Linux and I'm wondering if it will be able to handle
>2GB files 'automatically' when Linux on x86 starts supporting >GB files or
if I would have to recompile this software in order to give it the ability
to handle large files?
Thanks,
Otis
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