On Monday 12 August 2002 11:30 am, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > The problem is not just a system-level one, but a filesystem-level > one. Enabling 64 bits by default might be dangerous, because a DBA > might think "oh, it supports largefiles by default" and therefore not > notice that the filesystem itself is not mounted with largefile > support. But I suspect that the developers would welcome autoconfig > patches if someone offered them.
Interesting point. Before I could deploy RPMs with largefile support by default, I would have to make sure it wouldn't silently break anything. So keep discussing the issues involved, and I'll see what comes of it. I don't have an direct experience with the largefile support, and am learning as I go with this. Given that I have to make the source RPM's buildable on distributions that might not have the largefile support available, so on those distributions the support will have to be unavailable -- and the decision to build it or not to build it must be automatable. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
