From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Aaron Smith <yoda_2002@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "oversized" files
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 10:17:56 +0200 (MEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200107290817.KAA28266@cave.bitwizard.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15M6LP-0005NU-00@the-village.bc.nu> from Alan Cox at "Jul 16, 2001 12:15:19 pm"
Alan Cox wrote:
> > I have a file that is approximately 3.25GB and my system keeps
> > bitching about "Value too large for defined data type." Is there
> > any way to stop this? Since I'm sure you're wondering why I have a
> > file that large, I'm using it via loopback as my MP3 partition, so I
> > can remove it fairly quick if the need should ever arise.
> You need a 2.4 kernel and you need to be using NFSv3 to handle files >2Gb
But the error message he posted is mostly from local apps. You need
a set of apps compiled with recent GLIBC to be able to handle files
bigger than 2G.
Roger.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-29 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-16 2:20 "oversized" files Aaron Smith
2001-07-16 2:38 ` volodya
2001-07-16 2:51 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-07-16 11:15 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-29 8:17 ` Rogier Wolff [this message]
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