Re: Files > 2G on ext2 in 2.4.0?

Andreas Jaeger (aj@suse.de)
29 Jun 2000 13:55:09 +0200


>>>>> Khimenko Victor writes:

> Hmm. 2.4.0 corrected this limitation all right. But it DOES NOT mean you can
> use file > 2G now: bottleneck is GLibC this time. You need version 2.2 (not
That's wrong.
> released yet) to use files > 2G on ia32 (or was it added to late 2.1.x after
> all? not such a big difference in fact: you must recompile it against latest
> kernel headers even if support is there)...

glibc 2.1.3 supports all current LFS features of Linux 2.4.0test2 -
and you're right, you've got to recompile glibc with current kernel
headers.

Andreas

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