[Gllug] Large files

[tet at accucard.com]

>You see, the backups (which are simply compressed dumps of the
>filesystems) are impossible to play with:
>
>lewd:/backups1# ls -l *.bz2
>ls: rude-2001-09-20-usr.bz2: Value too large for defined data type
>ls: rude-2001-09-20-usrlocal.bz2: Value too large for defined data type
>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     34331715 Sep 20 21:10 lateral-2001-09-20-.bz
>2
>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     11432062 Sep 20 21:05 rude-2001-09-20-.bz2
>
>I can't even bzcat them to make sure that they can be restored
>fine. Anyone got any bright ideas about how to side-step this issue?
>Another fs?

Another filesystem won't help, as ext2 (assuming that's what you're
using) already has support for large files. You'll need to ensure you
have glibc-2.1.3 or higher (preferably glibc-2.2). You'll also need
to have LFS-aware userland apps, e.g., ls and split.

	http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html

Tet

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