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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
To: jpranevich@lycos-inc.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Big file support in Linux 2.2
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 12:02:44 -0600 (MDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200010271802.e9RI2ih04408@webber.adilger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85256985.00556CD3.00@SMTPNotes1.ma.lycos.com> "from jpranevich@lycos-inc.com at Oct 27, 2000 11:30:32 am"

Joe writes:
> For one of our projects here, we've crashed head first into the 2 gig file
> size limitation in Linux 2.2 kernels. While I know that this has been solved
> in 2.3/2.4, has there been any work to backport this feature into a Linux 2.2
> kernel? I'm looking for a temporary solution until we can move to Linux 2.4
> directly, but obviously not until after it's been "really" released. :)

You can get a 2.2 LFS patch from:
http://www.scyld.com/software/lfs.html

There may be other sources.  You also need to have a newer glibc (or recompile
your own) to really support LFS.

Cheers, Andreas
-- 
Andreas Dilger  \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/               -- Dogbert
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-27 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-27 15:30 Big file support in Linux 2.2 jpranevich
2000-10-27 18:02 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2000-10-27 18:18   ` Matti Aarnio
2000-10-27 22:34 ` Igmar Palsenberg

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