On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Alexey Tsiban wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Sorry for maybe offtopic, but what should I update in my slackware 8.0 to
> really support files >2G?
>
> I have xfs filesystem, tar can generate archive, say, 4G size but I can
> not take it by ftp or samba or scp. Split works. So some programs work
> with this files but many other dont. May be I need to update glibs or
> something else?
>
> Slackware 8.0, glibs 2.2.3
>
> Thank you,
glibc from slack 8 has support for LARGE FILE (thats why tar works). for
ftp you need to compile ftpd with large file support (if it has any) and
also your ftp clients
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Mihai RUSU
"... and what if this is as good as it gets ?"
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