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From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
To: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Cc: Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@fi.muni.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug in large files ext2 in 2.4.0-test11 ?
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:32:39 MET-1	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D69EF5976ED@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> (raw)

On 20 Nov 00 at 13:19, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> Does kernel 2.4.x compile and run well for all of our supported archs?

AFAIK yes. At least on all Debian archs.

> Do programs compiled against a glibc with LFS (2.4.x kernel) support, and
> using that LFS support, work on kernel 2.2.x machines?

Yes. Even glibc (2.2) compiled against kernel without LFS support has LFS
interface. Of course limited to 2GB files only.
 
> Secondly, anyone who thinks they know what they are doing, can simply
> download the Debian glibc sources files, and build against kernel-2.4.0
> headers with this simple command:
> 
> LINUX_SOURCE=/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test11 apt-get -b source glibc
> 
> Simple, eh? :)

But time consuming... If you already invested CPU power to compile
that large beast...
                                            Best regards,
                                                Petr Vandrovec
                                                vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
                                                
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             reply	other threads:[~2000-11-20 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-20 19:32 Petr Vandrovec [this message]
2000-11-20 19:16 ` Bug in large files ext2 in 2.4.0-test11 ? Ben Collins
2000-11-20 19:42   ` Matti Aarnio
2000-11-20 19:44     ` Ben Collins
2000-11-20 22:59   ` Wichert Akkerman
2000-11-21 11:24   ` Meelis Roos
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-20 19:06 Petr Vandrovec
2000-11-20 18:19 ` Ben Collins
2000-11-20 17:56 Zdenek Kabelac

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