Re: Files > 2G on ext2 in 2.4.0?

[Igmar Palsenberg]

> Yes.
> 
> > Someone is wanting to make tar files > 2G in Linux ia32 on ext2
> > and it is failing.  I told them it is a kernel limitation on
> > ia32, and that I'd try and find out if 2.4.0 corrects this
> > limitation.
> 
> 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
> 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 it in this machine. My kernel doesn't, thus all 64
versions of system calls fail :)

	
	Igmar