Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-21 Thread Emil Pedersen
Michael Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:41:08PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > Running "apt-get dist-upgrade"? Would that realy change/benefit much if > > there's only one application (the database engine) that needs lsf > > support? Since it's a server that preferably should be up

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:23:02PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In his case it is find, which is listing the large files in the DB Spool. He > can eighter exclude the parent dir, or upgrade at least fileutils. or findutils even. :) -- Mike Stone

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:53:13PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > The reason I ask is that some program seems to have problem with > > directories containing large files (cron report bellow), but I really > > don't see why. > > The getdents syscall encountering data it can't represent in this

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:25:58PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Provided you compile with -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 And provided that the source code *always* uses off_t properly, and never tries to go from off_t to int. There's a *lot* of bad code out there, and it can

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:41:08PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > Running "apt-get dist-upgrade"? Would that realy change/benefit much if > there's only one application (the database engine) that needs lsf > support? Since it's a server that preferably should be up 24/7 I want > to stick to the mo

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Emil Pedersen
Michael Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:48:52PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > I'm still some things that confuses me when putting lsf support on a > > potato system. A accept that you have to (re)compile your program > > against the new libc in order to use files larger than 2GB. B

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Previously Emil Pedersen wrote: >> If program want to use lsf, do they need to use other syscall names >> (e.g. fseek64() instead of fseek(), ...)? I assume that's the case and >> necessary for compatibility. > >No, glib

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:48:52PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > I'm still some things that confuses me when putting lsf support on a > potato system. A accept that you have to (re)compile your program > against the new libc in order to use files larger than 2GB. But.. Trying to add lfs to potat

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Emil Pedersen wrote: > If program want to use lsf, do they need to use other syscall names > (e.g. fseek64() instead of fseek(), ...)? I assume that's the case and > necessary for compatibility. No, glibc does that for you. > If the program don't use large files they should work, with