Michael Hasenstein wrote:
Rachel Greenham wrote:
As we've been playing with Broadcast 2000 on SuSE 7.0 over the weekend, we discovered we needed to make files over 2Gb in size. We couldn't get this going.
We'd upgraded to kernel 2.4.2 already, but apparently it also needs a glibc 2.2 built against kernel 2.4, and that proved beyond us (we ended up nuking the machine after trying to install a Red Hat glibc2.2.x - not my idea, but we ended up doing that when glibc2.2.2, the current release, can't be compiled by gcc 2.95.2 - again the current release and the one in suse 7.0)
So, any more information on how it can be done and - importantly, as mine should be arriving imminently - does SuSE 7.1 handle large files out of the box?
SuSE Linux 7.0 can handle large files just fine. The problem is the application, it has to actually USE those new glibc calls. 7.1 has many more apps than 7.0 that have been made LFS aware - we just don't have a list which ones ;-(
bcast2000 certainly is LFS aware. If the SuSE package isn't, the one we built from source certainly is. But we couldn't create any files greater than 2Gb. I'm still hopeful that 7.1, being glibc2.2.x-based, will resolve this though. ... *when* it arrives. I ordered it from the UK office and it *said* a turnaround period of a day or two, but it's been over a week. -- Rachel