Large File Support for RedHat Linux 8.0 Kernal 2.4.18-14

[Brian Macy]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Glen Kaukola wrote:

> Steve Elliot wrote:
> 
> >Our RedHat 8.0 doesn't seem to support Large file
> >system out of the box. We have a testing program
> >running on an ext3 file system, with both
> >_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 defined,
> >the lseek() function failed when the file pointer goes
> >beyound 2G. What's the steps to turn the large file
> >support on? and how do I know it is on?
> >
> 
> We had a similar problem, and it turned to be tcsh.  tcsh doesn't 
> support files over 2GB it seems, so we ended up having to convert all of 
> our scripts over to bash.
> 
> 
> Glen
> 

The other thing you need to check is that you're using an off_t type 
variable for the offset argument to lseek.  If you're using an int or a 
long, you'll still have the 32-bit restriction.

Brian
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Brian Macy
bcmacy at swbell.net

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