On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > Large file support is not (exactly) related to the filesystem, it's > related to the version of glibc and the tools that are creating the > files (I mentioned this earlier). However, your version of glibc should > be new enough, and as I said earlier, the limit that O_LARGE_FILE > overrides is the 2GiB limit (2^31-1 = 2147483648 bytes). I have no idea > what would be causing a *one* gibibyte limit. Very odd.
I've always had the limit at 1073 MB, so I never really knew why people talked about the 2G limit. I assumed there was some factor of 2 that everyone else knew about that I didn't. > Thanks for trying the strace, when it did the open() command near the > start of the trace, did it open with the O_LARGE_FILE option? yup. (opened both /dev/zero and file1 with O_LARGEFILE) > But really this is a red herring as you should have no problem with the > 1500 MiB file. I see :-( Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
