[Gllug] sparc 227terabyte disk size oddness

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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Martin A. Brooks muttered drunkenly:
> At 00:19 30/07/2003, you wrote:
>> > Did you also upgrade all the tools that were linked against the older glibc?
>>
>>You certainly shouldn't need to do that.
> 
> Well, as doing so fixed the problem....

I boggle. That is *really* not supposed to happen.

Possibly a move from non-LFS to LFS was going on, and you got bitten by
having some parts of the system built LFS (with 64-bit file pointers and
sizes) and some parts built non-LFS (with file pointers and sizes only
32-bit).

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