[ILUG] files > 2GB ...

[Padraig Brady]

Just talked about this: 
http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2001-July/034066.html
Make sure you have an up to date libc, also all utils that you need to
use with large files need to be recompiled (with appropriate defines).

Padraig.

Eoin Verling wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm running SuSe 6.3 and kernel 2.4.6 ... I'm trying to backup an informix DB we have that is bigger than 2GB. So, the 2.4.x kernel is 64-bit so it can handle these files, right? But are the binaries I already have on the machine still only 32-bit, ie if I create a file >2GB and do a "ls -l" on it I get :-
> 
> /home# ls -l file.cpk 
> ls: file.cpk: Value too large for defined data type
> /home# 
> 
> Do I need to get recompiled bins/libs?
> 
> E
> 
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