Steve, Dd is raw device io as apposed to file IO. Recent ext2&3 drivers have LFS support equal to ReiserFS.
I'm appealing to local debian / Linux users to let me know if debian woody (November images planetmirror.com) supports LFS without recompiling libc. If not I have to recompile glibc, what patches are good and where can I find them. For example where are the gcc3 glibc patches? Luke -----Original Message----- From: Steven Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2002 1:51 PM To: 'Luke McKee' Subject: RE: [SLUG] Large File support made simple? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hey dude reiserfs doesnt have any 2 gig limit. been able to dd copy a 10gig harddrive onto a resierfs hdd without any problems. Cheers, Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: Luke McKee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2002 1:20 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [SLUG] Large File support made simple? > > > Hey Slugsters, > > I'm trying to get large file support into TAR and my ftpd for > backup purposes. I hate it how tar and ftp and every bloody other > linux process > doesn't support 2 GB files on 32 bit systems. Being ignorant > of this, at one > stage greatly affected my job security :_) > > I've been a nice reading the HOWTO on it I found at: > http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/200-March/008708.html > > It said there is a simple define option -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE > that will run > macro's to make redefine all the existing Linux file IO > functions to their > 64 bit counterparts. I'm looking at my debian woody libc6 set > up and all the > macro's that don't seem to be there. > > Has anyone had any success with this or do I have to reconfigure a > new c-library form source? What patches should I get to (like > gcc3 and so on) if > I need to do this. > > Thanks heaps guys and girls. > > Luke McKee > Systems Administrator > RTS Realtime Systems Pty Ltd > Ph: +61 2 8259 3921 > Fax: +61 2 9259 3999 > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.1 iQA+AwUBPDpegRMcfLgR5MndEQIjngCWI1DUBmELWVQhyPAo+XDvqGoIsACgpUHS gRBlEUGMHUjlnLE42oJw9eo= =9HoO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
