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Uncle George <gatgul@voicenet.com> writes:

> I think it would be safe to say its a work in progress. Even if the
> 32bit kernel can accept 64bit seek pointers ( and return same ), you
> still have lots of legacy programs that know not ( or care not ) of
> anything besides int32 file pointers. There are just not a whole lot of
> programs that do things >than 2gigs. Let alone test to see that it does
> in fact work on files >2gig in an int32 environment. ie copy ( or mv/cp
> ) may not care about file position pointers, but samba might ( probably
> likely )  use it.
>  
> How can you tell ? ask the samba folks if it can do files >2gigs and
> under what circumstances 

It can. BT, DT.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.





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