Re: Stability of ReiserFS onj Kernel 2.4.x (sp. 2.4.[56]{-ac*}

Ragnar Kjørstad
2001-07-16T00:55:23Z

On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:50:03PM -0400, volodya@mindspring.com wrote:
> Umm that is very interesting - I was rather sure there were some problems
> a while ago (2.2.x ?). Is there anything special necessary to use large
> files ? Because I tried to create a 3+gig file and now I cannot ls or rm
> it. (More details: the file was created using dd from block device (tried
> to backup a smaller ext2 partition), ls and rm say "Value too large for
> defined data type" and I upgraded everything mentioned in Documentation/Changes).

Your utilities must be compiled with a recent glibc and with LFS (large
file support). Any recent distribution should support this.

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Ragnar Kjorstad
Big Storage