[lug] Kernel options for large file support -- more info

[Gregory W. Seker]

This smbfs patch for 2.4.20 worked for me (large file support for Windows
access, using samba).
I am also using Reiserfs 3.6 and had to upgrade to samba 3.0 and rebuild it
from source.
There is a 2.4.22 version listed here:

         http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~errror/smbfs-lfs.html

Remember, just becuase your kernel supports lfs, some of the distribution
packages may have to be compilied.

How are you trying to create the large files ?
What are you trying to do with the large files ?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Kahn" <mkahn at fast-track.com>
To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 4:25 PM
Subject: [lug] Kernel options for large file support -- more info


Jeff:

I realized I left that critical piece of information out of my original
posting. I am using Reiserfs version 3.6 which supports more than 1 TB
files. I got a rather brain-damaged version of kernel 2.6 up and I can
create >2G files using that kernel and mounting the Reiserfs filesystem. So,
I know that I am dealing with a 2.4 kernel limitation that supposedly was
removed in kernels earlier than the one I am using (2.4.22).

Michael Kahn
mkahn at fast-track.com



From: feenix at ticnet.com
Subject: Re: [lug] Kernel options for large file support?
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Are you using ext2 filesystem?  If so, change to another one, such as a
jourlaning file system.  You'll need it to be on all partitions that you
want to us > 2.0 GB files on.  Most of the newer kernels support large
files.

Jeff

> I need to create a 2.4 kernel that has large file support for files >
> 2.0G.
> I can't seem to find which set of kernel options give me this capability.
>
> I am using Mandrake 9.2 out of the box which uses kernel 2.4.22.
> Neither the stock MD 9.2 kernel nor the various "flavors" of alternate
> kernels
> ("enterprise", "multimedia") provide large file support.
>




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