On Monday 27 November 2006 05:16, Hydro Meteor wrote: > Hello, > > I was able to ./configure Bacula 1.38.11 on a Mac running Mac OS X > 10.4.8without any problems today (in a manner almost exactly the same > as my Ubuntu > Linux configuration). In both cases, I did not explicitly provide configure > with the option of disabling large file support, and I also did not > explicitly provide configure with he option of enabling large file system > support (but according to the current manual, --enable-largefile is the > default). > > Despite accepting the default (enabled), I noticed that my output was > different after running configure. On the Mac, configure reported a value of > "no" assigned as in: > > Large file support: no
If MacOS X is derived from FreeBSD, as I believe it is, this is "normal" in the sense that FreeBSD does not follow typical Unix/Linux conventions for large file support because it is always turned on. You can check if a particular client has large file support despite what the configure output says by doing a: status client=xxx in the console. If you get a line such as: Sizeof: off_t=8 size_t=4 debug=0 trace=0 in the output, you have large file support. If it says: Sizeof: off_t=4 size_t=4 debug=0 trace=0 you do not have large file support. > > On Ubuntu the value for "Large File Support:" was "yes". > > Furthermore, when I tried to re-configure on Mac OS X (being sure to run > configure a second time after a "make distclean" to clear any configure > cache), I then explicitly added this configure option: > > --enable-largefile > > But the end result was the same: > > Large file support: no > > What should I do? I will most definitely need to back up and restore files > that are in excess of 2 GB in size. > > In Bacula, is Large File Support limited to certain file systems or > operating systems? The Mac I tried configuring for is one of the quite new > Intel iMacs (with Intel Core 2 Dueo "Merom" chip inside and apparently Merom > is a 64-bit chip and apparently Mac OS X 10.4.x "Tiger" has some 64-bit > capability but I'm not clear on exactly where the lines are drawn between > 32-bit and 64-bit in Tiger and on these new iMacs). Would CPU architecture > in any way affect the outcome of Bacula? > > Might I be in new territory if I am understanding this [1] document about > Large File System support correctly. Any further suggestions or comparisons > (Erich?) from people who are running Bacula on Mac OS X (Apple Intel and > PowerPC)? > > Cheers, > > -H > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_file_support > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
