Re: Big file support

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 15:47 6-2-2002 +0200, Alexey Tsiban wrote:

>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

Your program is probably not compiled against glibc with BIG_FILE.

This might be fixed in -current but every program needs to be compiled with 
large file support.

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.