Rachel Greenham wrote:
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 ;-( bc2000 is unlikely to have been changed, it's not used that often...
OK, we're having real problems with this. Can you give me an example of one application in particular that is LFS-aware in 7.0 and/or 7.1? eg:
dd apache cpio dump file fileutils findutils gawk gzip less perl rsync sh-utils tar wget ... most only since 7.1
what would happen if I were to dd the SuSE 7.x DVD onto a file or otherwise tarball the entire contents of all the SuSE CD-ROMs? I'd like at least to see *something* produce large files so we know better where
dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1024 count=(number of kbytes)
the problem is - whether it's with our LFS-aware build of bc2000 or not.
Our problem is: We understand that large file support must not only be built into the kernel (2.4.x) but glibc must be built *against* that kernel, or at least that kernel's headers. Such a glibc won't function with a 2.2 kernel (this information is coming directly from kernel developers and borne out by our own experience), yet SuSE allows
It will with SuSE kernels.
switching between 2.2 and 2.4 kernels with relative ease; we cannot understand how this *can* work. So I'd really like to see some evidence that it does. :-)
Because we do kernel development and backport all the interesting things.
Oh, and my 7.1 order arrived today so I'll be playing with that...